From the monthly archives:

April 2009

The future of knowledge technologies

April 29, 2009

I have been almost permanently hungry since Saturday and I have no idea why, but it’s not one of the symptoms of swine flu so I’m not too worried.  I knew that I wouldn’t be getting dinner until late last night as I was going to the Gurteen Knowledge Café, hosted by the BCS as [...]

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The 80/20 rule

April 29, 2009
This entry is part 4 of 13 in the series Office Goddess

This month in the Office Goddess series, I want to look at the Pareto principle, otherwise known as the 80/20 rule. As an Office Goddess, you make everything you do look effortless, although afterwards you can explain just how complex it was.  No whinging while doing the task, mind.  There’s no real secret to getting [...]

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Book review: SharePoint for Project Management

April 27, 2009

You can’t run a project without a plan, and you can’t plan in SharePoint. That’s the major failing of this book.  Microsoft SharePoint doesn’t integrate with Microsoft Project, so I’m pretty sure it doesn’t integrate with anything a little bit more out of the box like LiquidPlanner or Genius. Although they might integrate with it. [...]

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Spring break!

April 9, 2009

It’s Easter, so I’m taking a two-week break from blogging to catch up, spring clean, go to weddings and eat chocolate. A Girl’s Guide to Project Management will be back on 27 April with a review of Sharepoint for Project Management (thanks Alec for reminding me that I hadn’t got round to posting it yet) [...]

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Diary dates

April 8, 2009

There are two great events coming up: The Lovelace lecture: hot on the heels of Ada Lovelace day comes the annual lecture given by the winner of the Lovelace medal.  This year the lecture will be given by Maurice Perks, IBM Fellow, on behalf of Dr Tony Storey, IBM Distinguished Engineer.  The topic is ‘The [...]

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New stats on women in IT make old news

April 6, 2009

You would have thought that with the research on pay gaps and the Exemplar Employer report we would be past discussing whether women get a fair deal at work and would have moved on to what people are actually going to do about it. BCS, e-skills UK and Intellect, in association with the Department for [...]

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And over at…

April 3, 2009

I did my first Twitter interview with Kim Beasley on Friday: a very surreal experience.  It’s hard to condense your answers to 140 characters.  We chatted about project management and some strategies for new project managers and businesses to ensure they get the best out of their project initiatives. You can read an edited version [...]

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Five things I want to do before I’m 35

April 1, 2009

I’ve just come back from Jukkasjärvi in Sweden, a place I’ve wanted to visit for ever because it’s where they build the magnificent Ice Hotel every year.  It was on the list of things to do before I hit 30, but I didn’t make it. It struck me as a coincidence that just as I [...]

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