From the monthly archives:

November 2009

BAs and PMs working together (part 3)

November 30, 2009

Last week I wrote about what project managers value when working with business analysts. This week I want to focus on what we don’t. Don’t worry: it’s not that bad! The differences in the ways that project managers work and the ways that business analysts work means that it’s not always easy to work together. [...]

The Blog Awards!

November 26, 2009

The lovely people at Computer Weekly announced the winners of the IT Blog Awards last night at a presentation at Shoreditch House. And I’m really pleased to say that – thanks to you all – I won the Project Management category! I was also the runner up in the IT Professional Female category – Flynny’s [...]

Giveaway: last few days

November 25, 2009

It’s not too late to enter the giveaway for a copy of Sharm Manwani’s book IT-Enabled Business Change. You can add your name to the hat: provided I get your entry before Tuesday. Find out how to enter here, and you could have this book as a Christmas present! No guarantees it will get to [...]

BAs and PMs working together (part 2)

November 23, 2009

Last week I wrote about the way that project managers work, and how this relates to OTOBOS. This week I want to explain what project managers value in our working relationships with business analysts. Project managers see BAs as architects. They are detailed, they decide on and build solutions, they work in a methodical way. [...]

Book review: Friends with Benefits

November 18, 2009

What a great title for a book about social media marketing. No Starch Press has a habit of turning out great books – I’ve recently reviewed Growing Software: Proven Strategies for Managing Software Engineers: Big Strategies for Managing Small Software Companies for The Computer Journal and that was also a fabulously produced, attractive and interesting [...]

BAs and PMs working together (part 1)

November 16, 2009

About a month ago I spoke at the Business Analysis Conference about how project managers work, and how business analysts and project managers can work together more successfully. As you can imagine, telling a room full of BAs that project managers don’t want to hear all that detail and analysis paralysis was received with a [...]

Vote for me!

November 15, 2009

This is a shameless plug: I’ve been nominated in the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards again this year and I would love to keep the title I won last year in the project management category. I have also been nominated in the ‘best female IT professional’ category, and it would be nice to give the [...]

Complexity in mega IT projects

November 11, 2009

“Everyone thinks they are the big boss,” says Laura Aziz. “Everyone thinks they are managing the others.” It’s one of the complexities that Laura is managing as part of putting the IT systems into a massive 7-star hospital in the Middle East: complete with wifi, electronic mediccal records and video conferencing. It’s a multi-year, multi-phase [...]

Book review (and giveaway): IT Enabled Business Change

November 9, 2009

“Change happens in organisations,” writes Sharm Manwani. “Sometimes you have a choice – to be in the driving seat, ride as a passenger or not to get onto the bus. At other times the choice is made for you.” IT-Enabled Business Change is a book about – surprise! – change in organisations. But it’s a [...]

Happy International Project Management Day!

November 6, 2009

It’s International Project Management Day! At least, I think it is. PMI celebrated on 3rd November (although their UK Chapter is celebrating on the 17th and their Greece Chapter on the 6th), IIL celebrated yesterday and I actually have 17th November in my diary – not sure where that came from. Regardless – of when [...]

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