From the monthly archives:

June 2010

Scope creep, shopping-style!

June 30, 2010

I try really hard not to let scope creep impose upon my projects, so why is it so difficult to stop it in the rest of my life? Despite my efforts to keep my language skills up since moving back to the UK from Paris, my French is rusty to the point where if it [...]

Winner! Curt Finch’s book

June 25, 2010

The winner of All Your Money Won’t Another Minute Buy: Valuing Time as a Business Resource by the CEO of Journyx was Grace, from Wales. Well done, Grace. If you weren’t lucky this time, you can read the review here and buy a copy at Amazon.com, if you’d like. And you still have time to [...]

Inside PRINCE2: Who does what in project Initiation

June 23, 2010

This entry is part 6 of 11 in the series Inside PRINCE2

Initiating a project is where it all starts in PRINCE2. This is the phase where you start working out who is going to do what. You also put in place all the required elements to make sure the project goes smoothly. The Initiating a Project process is designed to “establish solid foundations” according to the [...]

Experts’ Forum at NCPM

June 20, 2010

A transcript of this video is below. Elizabeth Harrin: Well I’m here in the beautiful grounds of Middlesex University at the National Centre for Project Management because there is an event tonight hosted by Gower Publishing. And one of the editors for Gower is Professor Darren Dalcher who works at the National Centre for Project [...]

Review: Digite v6.0

June 18, 2010

Digité is head quartered in Mountain View, California and was started as a collaboration between two companies. The objective was to bring out a tool that would help people collaborate and fulfil the needs of a trend they had already spotted back in 2003, that of distributed teams. “It’s not a PPM tool trying to [...]

Join the Virtual Working Summit!

June 16, 2010

Is your project team scattered all over the place, and most of your meetings done on the phone? Many project managers lead a virtual team and getting the best out of people and their time can be a challenge when you are not based in the same office. You can learn how to do work [...]

Giveaway: business cards

June 14, 2010

You know when you are attending a conference and someone gives you their business card? For networking purposes you absolutely should have something to give back to them. To make it easier for you to always have something in your handbag to hand out, I have another great giveaway for you this month. All Business [...]

Education and Training: The Debate

June 9, 2010

Is there are big divide between project management academics and those offering training? And do project managers need both? These were some of the questions discussed at a recent BCS event where a panel debated the differences between project management education and training. The evening started with a vote on the motion: “Education and training [...]

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