From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Carnival of Project Management #22

August 31, 2008

Welcome to the August/September 2008 edition of carnival of project management. There were over 30 entries; these are the articles I deemed to be most relevant and interesting to project managers. If you submitted more than one blog post I chose my favourite. Rich Maltzman, PMP presents Big Wheels Keep on Turnin’ posted at Scope [...]

Sorry – no book review today

August 27, 2008

I should have had a book review for you today, but I haven’t finished reading Communication Skills for Project and Programme Managers. I’ve been finding it hard to put down Stephen King’s La Ligne Verte (The Green Mile). It’s the longest thing I’ve ever attempted in French, the first Stephen King I’ve ever read, and [...]

People, not technology: new research

August 25, 2008

In June, Forrester released a report that concluded that IT projects are people projects: people management skills are essential for the successful design and implementation of the project. Experienced project managers will know that this is common sense. It’s rarely the technology that lets projects down: in fact, studies have shown that technology is one [...]

Good news!

August 20, 2008

I was really excited to find out that I had won the Project Management category of the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards the day before yesterday. I wanted to wait until I had the official confirmation and this little image, which I got today, before putting posting about winning… just in case it wasn’t true! [...]

Book review: Leadership Skills for Project and Programme Managers

August 20, 2008

Leadership Skills for Project and Programme Managers is the second in the Focus on Skills series from TSO. Actually, I don’t know which number in the series it is, as the three books were all launched at the same time. It’s the second one I read, so it’s the second review to appear here. I [...]

Why projects fail: the presentation

August 18, 2008

Last month I gave a presentation at the Nottingham and Derby branch of the British Computer Society about why projects fail – which, as regular readers will know, is a subject close to my heart. It was a pretty good evening: lots of people turned out, including some of the BCS Women group and some [...]

Stepping into Project Management

August 17, 2008

There’s a new project management blog in town: Stepping into Project Management. One person (sounds like a woman to me, but maybe I’m reading too much into the list of professions considered as a child and what s/he’s ended up doing now). Blogs come and go, but this one – if it stays around – [...]

Book review: Team Management Skills for Project and Programme Managers

August 13, 2008

When I met Melanie Franklin earlier this year she asked me what I blogged about. “At the moment it’s mainly about my holiday and handbags,” I replied. It was true. Melanie didn’t look impressed. A colleague tried to rescue me. “I love how you’re aware of what’s going on elsewhere,” she said. But I think [...]

Solid Proof

August 11, 2008

PMI has commissioned some research into the value of project management. The findings were shared at their research conference in Warsaw last month, and you can watch the presentation here. The study apparently took three years of field-work and cross-disciplinary analysis that culminated in June this year. Now I’m a bit sceptical of a study [...]

Free chapter!

August 6, 2008

Continuing the theme of the summer of books, I’m pleased to be able to offer a free extract from my book, Project Management in the Real Word. It’s 25 pages, in .pdf format. Click here to download a free extract of Project Management in the Real World. Like what you read? Buy it on amazon.co.uk [...]