From the monthly archives:

March 2009

International Women’s Day

March 8, 2009

Happy International Women’s Day! For International Women’s Day I reviewed Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of our Next Economic Revolution by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Alison Maitland. There’s a skills shortage.  If you haven’t noticed it yet you will do when the baby boom generation starts to retire.  There just aren’t enough people entering [...]

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Risks, improv and chocolate

March 5, 2009

“Most books on branding,” Adam says, “focus on what it takes for a brand to be great: follow these steps, tick the boxes on a flow chart.” “PRINCE2 training is just like that,” I reply.  “If you complete these documents your project will be a success. That’s not how things work in the real world.” [...]

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Review: ConceptDraw Project

March 2, 2009

ConceptDraw PROJECT is the second piece in the ConceptDraw Office suite. Last week I reviewed MINDMAP. I reviewed version 3 of ConceptDraw PROJECT back in 2007, so now they are on version 5 I was interested to see what had been improved. The interface is attractive and easy to use. Hitting Return puts a new [...]

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Carnival of Project Management #25

March 1, 2009

Woo!  This February/March 2009 edition is the 25th Carnival of Project Management and it feels like we should be celebrating this milestone.  So get yourself a full-fat Mocha Frappuccino, and start clicking some links. Rich Maltzman, PMP presents Not yawning. Neither doing cartwheels. posted at Scope crêpe, which is a great snapshot summary of views [...]

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