From the monthly archives:

May 2008

Carnival of project management #20

May 28, 2008

Welcome to the May 26, 2008 edition of carnival of project management. Thirty-one entries this month, so here is what made the cut: lazymale presents “5 common scheduling mistakes” posted at lap31 “are you ready to lead?”. Rich Maltzman, PMP presents Project Managers: Don’t Get the Point! posted at Scope crêpe, saying, “Don’t get the [...]

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SmartDraw 2008: planning the garden

May 26, 2008

SmartDraw is, according to the manufacturer, the world’s most popular business graphics software. It makes it easy to design “presentation-quality” graphics in “minutes, not hours.” I decided to put this to the test myself. When I put the SmartDraw 2008 CD in my PC, the installation window told me it would take 51 minutes to [...]

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Hunt for a handbag

May 19, 2008

Gents, this is a post about earned value analysis*. My trusty handbag for work is coming to the end of its useful life. I bought it in Brussels, when I was visiting a friend. I got all excited that they still had C&A shops when the chain had been closed in the UK for years, [...]

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Across the pond

May 17, 2008

If you enjoyed the recent series on cross-border projects you might be interested in this article from Peter Onime, about the cultural differences in project management between the UK and the US.

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Survey

May 16, 2008

Ten questions, ten minutes. An Master in Business Administration (MBA) student at Bucks New University is looking for people with experience of project management and the project management of information systems projects as part of her dissertation. She’s looking at impacts in project planning and performance in relation to risk, representation and bias. f you [...]

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Carnival of project management #20

May 15, 2008

Yep, it’s the 20th Project Management Carnival.  If you want to be in on this landmark edition, then get your submissions in via the BlogCarnival submissions page by 23 May.

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The Garden Project

May 12, 2008

I have a garden again. Last summer I was between homes. The summer before that I managed to get a few runner beans out of a pot in the courtyard of my Paris flat. But I’m pretty sure that the constant smoking from my neighbors stunted the plant’s growth. And maybe the fact that I [...]

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Meet PMI in Malta

May 7, 2008

The Project Management Institute (PMI), is the world’s leading member association for the project management profession, but it hasn’t really got the reach of PRINCE2 as a standard approach in the UK. Not yet, anyway. PMI over here is growing, and they are holding a conference in Malta in a couple of weeks to prove [...]

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LiquidPlanner: new version available!

May 5, 2008

I saw a demo of the latest version of LiquidPlanner, the project management scheduling and collaboration tool, on Tuesday. It’s now been released – and it’s still in the Beta testing phase so it’s still free! Bruce Henry took me, a life-long user of MS Project, through the main features. I have dabbled with ConceptDraw [...]

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