From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Looking for a new job?

January 30, 2009

With the economy being as it is, there are plenty of people job hunting at the moment, although project management roles are not being hit as hard as other sectors.  Still, if you are in the market for a new role, project-management-jobs.info may help.  Lonnie Pacelli has started a site to bring together resources for [...]

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Blogging your job

January 28, 2009

There has been a fair amount of coverage in the UK press about the expectations of young people going into the workforce, especially around the services and provisions that their new employers should make.  Social networking is one of the options that new entrants to the workplace expect to have switched on.
The relationship works both [...]

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New version of SFIA launched

January 26, 2009

Here’s another acronym for you: SFIA.  It’s ‘Skills Framework for the Information Age’ and is owned and maintained by The SFIA Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation.
Essentially SFIA (say: Sophia) is a list of the skills required of people in IT and related jobs.  It’s been around over 20 years in various forms although project management was [...]

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Winner of Young Project Manager award

January 23, 2009

Edward Logan won the International Young Project Manager award recently, and collected his trophy at the IPMA conference in Rome at the end of last year.  I interviewed him for Projects@Work, and you can read what he had to say about the whole thing here.

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In the know: managing project assumptions

January 21, 2009

Need some help managing assumptions on your project?  Assumptions assist with risk management and planning, although you do need to keep on top of them.  I’ve just written a basic guide to project assumptions at PM Majik, so check it out!

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How good is your PMO?

January 20, 2009

A new study has shown that nearly half of Project, Programme and Portfolio Management Offices (PMOs) rate themselves as Fair or Poor in terms of effectiveness.  I think that’s terrible, especially as it was the PMO team or those close to them who responded to the survey.  As the purpose of having a PMO is [...]

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Another survey

January 19, 2009

Today’s the last day to complete the Arras People 2009 Project Management Survey.  The results of the survey form a snapshot of the state of project management recruitment and the industry in the UK – last year’s study made interesting reading, and of course it is always good to find out what your peers are [...]

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Impact of the economy on project management

January 18, 2009

Josh Nankivel of PMStudent.com is running a survey on the impact of the currect economic situation on project management.  If you have an anecdote to share, complete the survey.
He’s had responses from all over the world so far:  Costa Rica, India, Mexico, Holland, Germany, France, Canada, the US, China, Australia, but no one from the [...]

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Wiki ahoy!

January 14, 2009

The ICPM is starting a wiki for project management and I’m surprised at the information that is already on there, given they haven’t had it up and running for very long.  If you’d like to contribute, it’s easy.  Go to the Table of Contents, find a page that you have something to say about and [...]

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Book review: How to do Systems Analysis

January 12, 2009

The strapline on the back of this book is ‘becoming a systems thinker’.  The authors have taken a practical approach to systems analysis describing the fundamentals of systemic thinking including problem definition and problem solving.
How to do Systems Analysis covers the six main phases of systems analysis:  determining system goals, establishing a process and criteria [...]

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