From the monthly archives:

June 2008

Showcase: books and sins

June 30, 2008

I was at the Best Practice Showcase last Tuesday and I actually had a really good time, which is strange given that it was mainly an event for project management training companies to sell at the punters. There are some people I only get to see at conferences like Patrick and John and I [...]

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Equal pay – your chance to speak!

June 27, 2008

Intellect are running their equal pay survey again this year so if you have five minutes to spare to comment on equal pay audits and the perception of equal pay, then click over to the survey and fill it in.
This is being carried out as part of Intellect’s Women in IT Forum programme and there [...]

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This weekend’s back up project

June 27, 2008

Regular readers will know that I’m always nervous of doing WordPress upgrades, and there seems to be a greater frequency of releases at the moment, so I’m about to embark on another this weekend.  So, if the blog disappears for a short while, it’s a backing-up problem, and I’ll be online again as soon as [...]

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How was your Friday?

June 23, 2008

I’ve been going through my emails after being away and I came across the FeedBlitz alert for Craig Brown’s blog post How was your Friday? So in answer to the question, here’s how it was:
9.30 Wake up
10.00 Breakfast on the balcony: Greek yoghurt and local honey, peach juice
10.30 Leave washing up for cleaner. [...]

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Proud postings

June 16, 2008

At the end of March Bas de Baar over at the Project Shrink started a series called Proud Postings and recently he featured me. I’m on holiday this week, so have a read of that while I’m away.

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Failing projects: the presentation

June 11, 2008

I’m giving a talk in Nottingham next month.  It’s been a while since I’ve been that far north.  I always got really excited being driven through the town when I was younger, as Robin Hood could have been in the forest somewhere.  There’s been a recent TV series about him that I’ve watched with a [...]

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A glossary of terms

June 9, 2008

I came across this recently. If you are new to project management you might find it interesting. It’s TechRepublic’s glosssary of PM terms, which you can use as a starting point for getting to grips with a whole new language. It’s not complete but it’s a useful springboard.

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Runner bean mystery revealed!

June 4, 2008

I got impatient about why there was nothing coming up in my pot of runner beans. And I needed the flower pot for something else, so I figured if it wasn’t going to sprout then I’d reuse the soil and the pot for a begonia instead. I tipped it all out to fish [...]

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Book review: Lead Well and Prosper

June 2, 2008

Lead Well and Prosper by Nick McCormick is an easy read. I got through it in a couple of tube trips: it’s small enough to carry around. The print is quite large, so it’s easy on the eyes in the dim light of underground public transport. That said, it’s not lightweight in [...]

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