From the monthly archives:

May 2010

Event: Social Media for Project Managers

May 31, 2010

I’ll be presenting to the APM’s Women in Project Management SIG on 10 June, and you are invited. We’ll be talking about how project managers can use social media.  I’ll be presenting this: There’s a revolution happening in project management: social media tools are finding their way from branding and marketing to the hub of [...]

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PRINCE2 and PMBoK: why both?

May 26, 2010

The OGC, the UK body that produces PRINCE2, is doing a lot at the moment to show how PRINCE2 supports and integrates with other project management standards and methods.   Earlier this year, I shared a video with you about how PRINCE2 fits with APM’s body of knowledge.  In this video, Andy Murray, the lead [...]

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More on PMD Pro

May 24, 2010

Back in 2007, a group of NGO’s met in Baltimore.  They realised that their projects were over or under spent and ineffective.  “Because we are positive people we saw this as an opportunity,” said John Cropper, Global Programme Co-ordinator for Oxfam’s Raising Her Voice programme.  They wanted to do something “by the sector for the [...]

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Rita Mulcahy has lost her battle with breast cancer

May 22, 2010

I’ve just heard the sad news that last week Rita Mulcahy, Founder of RMC Project Management, passed away after a five-year battle with breast cancer.  You can read her short obituary on the RMC website. I gave away one of Rita’s books last summer and it was perhaps the most popular giveaway I have ever [...]

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Giveaway: Curt Finch’s book

May 19, 2010

I didn’t put the title of Curt Finch’s book in the title of this post because it is so long and a grammatical quirk.  But you’ll be pleased to know that I have a copy of All Your Money Won’t Another Minute Buy: Valuing Time as a Business Resource by the CEO of Journyx to [...]

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Book review: All Your Money Won’t Another Minute Buy

May 17, 2010

Curt Finch, CEO of Journyx, Inc., has put all his wisdom about time tracking into a book called All Your Money Won’t Another Minute Buy: Valuing Time as a Business Resource.  It’s not that long and it’s quick to read and while I wouldn’t rate it as one of the top business books I have [...]

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Intelligent Planning: interview with Vanessa Carpenter

May 12, 2010

Putting together a project schedule is all well and good, but it only really comes to life when you add in people.  After all, you can’t have your number one resource doing too many things at once.  And how many times have you mentally pencilled in a task only to find out that the person [...]

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Inside PRINCE2: Closing a project

May 10, 2010
This entry is part 5 of 11 in the series Inside PRINCE2

A project has a start, a middle and an end, so closing a project is an important part of the project management lifecycle.  Closing a project successfully means a good, clean transition for the project team.  This involves transferring ownership of the products to the operational team, and makes it clear that the project team [...]

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Carnival of Project Management 32#

May 7, 2010

Welcome to the April/May 2010 edition of carnival of project management.  I’m a bit behind – you should have had this on Monday, but it was a bank holiday here. My favourite submission this time comes from Elyse Nielsen: Balancing the Constraints posted at Anticlue, saying, “One of the key components is to exploit the [...]

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The launch of PMD Pro

May 5, 2010

Please excuse my amateur video skills! This one didn’t come out as well as I had hoped.  The transcript for the video is below. Elizabeth Harrin: Well, good morning. I’m here at the National Council for Volunteer Organisations in London just around from King’s Cross. I’m looking at Regent’s Canal. It’s a great location. And [...]

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