From the monthly archives:

February 2010

Giveaway: The Power of Slow

February 26, 2010

Would you like to slow down and get more done?  I have a copy of Christine Louise Hohlbaum’s book, The Power of Slow, 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World to give away.  You can read my review of the book here. Send me a message saying ‘I want to be slow’ before [...]

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Book review: The Power of Slow

February 24, 2010

Normally when I read books to review I take notes as I go.  But I have read The Power of Slow a couple of times, and I don’t have any notes on it.  I think I just got sucked in to the book, and read it fast, which was probably not the point. Christine Louise [...]

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Giveaway update

February 22, 2010

The blog giveaway of access to the closed beta trial of The Plan Is is now over, but you can still get your hands on a licence through the medium of Twitter.  Tweet me @pm4girls including the phrase ‘The Plan Is’ and I’ll enter you in the draw.  Before the end of this week, please, [...]

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Fixed date projects: more advice from the experts

February 17, 2010

Last week we saw that PRINCE2 doesn’t really have much advice to offer the project manager stuck with delivering to a fixed date.  I also gave you some advice from another expert, J LeRoy Ward at ESI.  Surely some other project management experts have tackled this problem?  I trawled my bookcase for what other people [...]

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Inside PRINCE2: Fixed date projects

February 15, 2010
This entry is part 2 of 11 in the series Inside PRINCE2

Planning is an essential part of what project managers do, so you would expect there to be some mention of how to deal with fixed date projects in the PRINCE2 manuals.  There isn’t.  Fixed date projects only get a passing mention in the Managing Successful Projects book, and you’d have to look really hard to [...]

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Expert advice on fixed date projects

February 10, 2010

As part of this month’s focus on managing projects with fixed dates, I asked J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP, Executive Vice President Product Strategy & Management at ESI International for some advice. What sort of projects have the delivery date fixed in advance? Projects that have their delivery dates in advance can be found in [...]

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The Plan Is Giveaway

February 8, 2010

Richard Revis is the brains behind The Plan Is, scheduling software that has been designed with fixed date projects in mind.  It is still in beta testing, and the final touches are being put to the software based on customer feedback.  There are still some bugs and quirks to iron out – you can read [...]

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So What? giveaway winner

February 5, 2010

Teri, a project manager from Jeffersonville, USA, was the first name out of the hat for the So What? giveaway. Congratulations, Teri!  Your book is in the post.

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Fixed Date Feb & ThePlanIs.com

February 3, 2010

There are some project dates that you just can’t move.  For example, my first attempt at knitting baby clothes for a friend’s newborn.  I couldn’t say to her to hang on a bit because the jumper wasn’t ready.  It had to be wrapped and ready to go the moment I got the text to announce [...]

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How Social Media Changes Project Management

February 1, 2010

Today, Andrew Filev, who writes the fab Project Management 2.0 blog, and I are swapping posts.  We agreed on the loose topic of social media and project management.  Andrew has a great deal of knowledge on enterprise 2.0 and social media, so I’m glad to have him as a guest author today.  You can read [...]

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