From the monthly archives:

December 2009

Christmas break!

December 17, 2009

I’m taking a Christmas break, to rest and recuperate from all the Christmas parties!! This is a photo of me and Wally Moore, PMI’s manager for business and government relations at a recent Economist event honouring innovation projects.  You can read more about the evening and the award winners on PMTips.net. A Girl’s Guide to [...]

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Book review: So What?

December 14, 2009

“Do you have any advent calendars?” I asked the shop assistant. She grunted and pointed to a display in the window.  They were ordinary 2010 wall calendars. “They’re not really what I was after,” I said. She grunted again and pointed to a pile of diaries. “Not really advent calendars,” I said, more to myself [...]

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Giveaway winner

December 10, 2009

And the first name out of the hat was Tony from Essex, UK. Congratulations:  a copy of Sharm Manwani’s book IT-Enabled Business Change is on its way. If you want to find out more about this book you can read the review here.  And if you are in London today and can get to the [...]

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Book review: Six-Word Lessons For Project Managers

December 9, 2009

What can you learn from just 6 words?  According to Lonnie Pacelli, President of Leading on the Edge International quite a lot.  He was inspired by this anecdote: “Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was challenged by some friends to write a story in six words.  Hemingway responded to the challenge with the following story:  [...]

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BAs and PMs working together (part 4)

December 7, 2009

In this final instalment of the ‘working together’ series, I’ll be looking at how to improve the working relationships between project managers and business analysts. Changing working relationships is often more about culture than concrete tasks, but there are some things you can do to smooth any blips in the way that project managers and [...]

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What’s new: Genius

December 3, 2009

The phone connection cuts out and I’m left listening to nothing.  Over in Canada Christophe Borlat, General Manager of Genius Inside, is also holding a dead phone.  No matter.  We’re on a web conference, so he types on his screen and I can read the new plan:  forgot phone lines, let’s talk on Skype.  A [...]

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