From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Book review: Strategic Project Portfolio Management

March 31, 2010

It took me a while to get my hands on Simon Moore’s book, Strategic Project Portfolio Management, but I’m rather glad I did. For a start, it’s beautiful. I read a lot, and I notice fonts, layout, box copy, but in this book, most of all the lovely tables. Praising a book because it is [...]

Points of view: an interview with Bob Light

March 29, 2010

There’s a relatively new software tool on the market – a tool which had it’s funding pulled after failing to make it big in 6 years, and was rescued from the rubbish bin by someone with practically no project management knowledge. Sounds like a disaster? Actually, Bob Light sounds like just the kind of person [...]

Ada Lovelace Day Interview with Melanie Franklin

March 24, 2010

The last time I met Melanie Franklin I don’t think I made a particularly good impression – I told her I mainly wrote about handbags* and I expect I came off as rather flippant. So it was with slight trepidation that I sat in the offices of Maven Training after work waiting to interview her [...]

A new way to think about RACI

March 17, 2010

Do you use the RACI model to help with stakeholder management? RACI is a way of categorising stakeholders to help define their roles and responsibilities, and it is also useful for communications plans. The most common way to see RACI used is in tabular form – with the letters across the top and the list [...]

PM News Round-up

March 15, 2010

Here’s a round-up of the latest happenings in the project management arena. The Turing Lecture I attended the 2010 Turing Lecture last month. Professor Chris Bishop, Chief Research Scientist at Microsoft’s research lab in Cambridge, discussed the field of machine learning. He talked about how uncertainty can be modeled and quantified using probabilities and how [...]

The Plan Is winners

March 10, 2010

Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway to win licences for the beta test version of Richard Revis’ fixed date planning tool, The Plan Is. The lucky winners should have received their email invite to join the beta test now, so have fun playing with the software and I hope you find it useful for [...]

Going up? Taking a sideways step in the job market

March 8, 2010

The career path for a project manager is pretty straightforward. Start on project support and small projects, manage bigger and bigger projects, then become a programme manager. Some people would argue that programme management and project management are different skill sets and programme management is not necessarily the natural progression. But programme managers earn more [...]

Carnival of Project Management #31

March 3, 2010

And my favourite submission this month is from Lindsay Scott who sent in Does Programme & Project Management have a “Long Hours” Culture? posted at How to Manage a Camel – Project Management and Recruitment. How can you not love a blog with such a great name? A close second is Buck Jefferson‘s piece on [...]

Webinar: Managing Money on Projects

March 2, 2010

I’m giving a webinar for The Project Management Bookstore on Friday. It’s on the subject of managing money on projects, and you get a PDU for attending. From the website: “The author’s book, Project Management in the Real World, covers five key areas for project managers: budgets, teams, scope, plans and personal productivity. During this [...]

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