Carnival of Project Management #31

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 Critical Path Method posted at Project Management for Beginners. He writes, “This article may seem a bit elementary to you, but it’s aimed at beginners and young PMs.” I suppose I’m a bit biased towards Buck because he recently interviewed me.

Here’s another article aimed at beginners:  Kathy C’s What is Project Management? posted at The Thriving Small Business.

Adi Gaskell, whom I met recently through the Chartered Management Institute, presents What is scrum and how can it boost success? posted at The Management Blog.

VyrtuNet presents A Project Managers Dream Tool: Project Workbook posted at P3 Peak Performance.

Rich Maltzman, PMP writes about green project management in Will ‘Bloom Boxes’ Bloom next to Michelle Obama’s Organic Garden? posted at Earth PM.

Brian Mossing sent in The Right Way to Admit You’ve Done Wrong posted at ClearPM.

Gilad Lev-Shamur presents Why projects fail? Start with your management commitment posted at The Project Management’s Thinker. This is an interesting take on the perennial issue of why projects fail. I don’t think it is written by a native English speaker, so overlook the grammar errors please.

Hauke Borow presents How To Build A Project Structure Plan posted at HaukeBorow.Org.  Good, but why center the entire post? I think it makes it hard to read.  Hauke also submitted a piece about the 7 Basic Principles Of Effective Project Management. I’m not sure if everyone would agree that these are the basic tenets of project management, but we can argue about that in the comments!

Howard Vaughan presents Project Management and the Four Cultures posted at PM Lotus.

Divinelysmile presents The Gender Gap: 10 Surprising Stats on Women in the Workplace posted at JobProfiles.org.  If you find all of these stats surprising then you haven’t been reading my blog for long enough.  Women get paid less – we know!  Still, there are a couple of interesting points here.

That concludes this 31st edition.  You can submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of project management using our carnival submission form. Past posts can be found on our blog carnival index page, or search this blog for ‘Carnival’.

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