This month in the Office Goddess series, I want to look at using your gadgets at work.
You love your laptop, right?  It goes where you go and it’s oh so handy for meetings.  Well, personally I’m a pen and paper girl but if it’s really important and will make things easier I will tote around [...]

“This lecture pays due tribute to a lot of our computing heritage,” says Alan Pollard, BCS President in full regalia with a presidential medal around his neck.
I take my seat in the conference room of The Wellcome Trust.  It’s a beautiful space.  One of the best things about attending events is getting to nose around [...]

A friend and I went to Kenwood House recently to see a photo exhibition.  We had arrived separately by bus and tube and felt very much like we were in London.  Until we walked on to Hampstead Heath.
Laid out below us was London: the Swiss Re building, the Eye, Telecom Tower, St Paul’s, the ever-present [...]

Projects involve change, and change normally means you have to encourage/cajole the people who are being changed into learning the new way of doing things.  Part of any project is to ensure that those changes are embedded, and we need to have tasks in the project plan equating to managing this business change.
Often, business change [...]

I’m very excited: Project Management in the Real World is now available in the US.
True, you could always have got a copy before but the shipping costs from the UK were high and it took a long time to get there.  Now, my publisher has organised local distribution through the book trade in the USA, [...]

There’s a lot going on in the project management world right now, as we move into the summer there seem to be more and more events coming up.
The annual Lovelace lecture is next week (13 May), on the topic of ‘The Sins of IT Projects and why they can fail.’  It’s fully subscribed, but I’m [...]

Welcome to the April 30, 2009 edition of carnival of project management.  I sifted through 76 lovely entries to pick out the best for your enjoyment.  Can you believe we are now on number 26?

Eric Klen presents How to End Organizational Chicken Games posted at Dharma Consulting. This made me smile.

Willb presents When its [...]

Apparently the average salary for a programme manager is £70,196, down from £72,510 this time last year, according to G2, an IT specific recruitment agency.
The range of programme manager salaries is actually much narrower than I was expecting, with the average minimum being £65,513 (last year – £66,711) and maximum being £74,990  (last year – [...]