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July 2009

Book review: Dictionary of Project Management Terms

July 29, 2009

Amazingly, this dictionary retails at nearly £90. It is about 500 pages, and each page is packed with project management definitions, but even so. ESI can’t have been selling very many, which is maybe why they decided to put it online. You do have to register to access the online version, which is free. But [...]

Giveaway: Thank God It’s Monday!

July 28, 2009

It’s not too late to enter the Thank God it’s Monday!: How to Create a Workplace You and Your Customers Lovegiveaway. Simply send me a message with the content: I love Mondays! If it’s your name out of the hat then I’ll contact you to ask for your postal address details. The closing date is [...]

Book review: Making Things Happen

July 27, 2009

Normally I take lots of notes when I’m reading books for review. I took loads when I was reading Scott Berkun’s Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management. It got to the point where I was writing down fabulous bits of so many pages I just gave up. It’s all brilliant. Making Things Happen is the [...]

Do this! A research study for you

July 25, 2009

Back in February I interviewed Chris Haigh, who was doing an MSc in Project Management and had recently won a Shell Step award for one of his projects. Chris is now at the point of putting together his final bits for his MSc, from which he graduates later this year. His research project is about [...]

Project management scholarships

July 24, 2009

It’s nice to see that someone is doing something to help out of work project managers. ESI International have announced a $500,000 scholarship programme for out-of-work technical professionals – if you are a US resident. The scholarship funds are designed to cover the ‘majority’ of course fees (which is the cost of the course minus [...]

Preparing your exit strategy

July 22, 2009

This entry is part 8 of 13 in the series Office Goddess

This month for the Office Goddess series, I joined in with Krissy Jackson’s webinar about preparing an exit strategy from your current role. Jackson is The IT Girls Coach, so I was keen to find out what she had to say. Jackson started off by explaining why we need an exit strategy. She said that [...]

Book review: Why new systems fail

July 20, 2009

It’s an odd experience, reading a book about project management that uses none of the language of project management or business analysis. Phil Simon’s book, Why New Systems Fail: Theory and Practice Collide, is a study of IT project failure from a consultant’s perspective. Simon has plenty of experience of implementing large scale systems, and [...]

Now in Spanish!

July 19, 2009

I’m pleased to say that I’ve begun a collaboration with Think Like a Project Manager, the blog from La Salle University in Barcelona. I’d like to take the credit for doing the translations myself, but sadly my Spanish only extends to ordering churros and chocolate caliente. The first piece that La Salle have chosen to [...]

Ever wondered what happened to the PRINCE2 bear?

July 17, 2009

Do you remember the bear I got at the PRINCE2:2009 launch? (He was on the video.) Well, I got rid of his PRINCE2 shirt, and made him a scarf. This is my first ever attempt at crochet, and while I was very pleased I could actually work out what to do with the hook and [...]

Book review: Thank God It’s Monday!

July 15, 2009

If you like management books with stories, like Fish! and The One Minute Manager, then Thank God it’s Monday!: How to Create a Workplace You and Your Customers Love is the kind of book you’ll enjoy. It follows the story of Roger, CEO of a company that isn’t doing so well, and Kathy, a CEO [...]

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