From the monthly archives:

July 2010

A newsletter – and a break

July 19, 2010

You might have seen the newsletter sign up box that has appeared on the right-hand side.  I have found that I’ve got too much to share with readers just through the blog, and a newsletter is a useful way to connect further.  If you sign up to the newsletter before the end of this month, [...]

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Book Review: Taming Change with Portfolio Management

July 14, 2010

Taming Change with Portfolio Management: Unify Your Organization, Sharpen Your Strategy and Create Measurable Value is a meaty book – and I only got the paperback advance reader’s copy.  I’ve been lumping it around for a while now.  The hardback formal print run is now complete and the book is (just) on the shelves. Pat [...]

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The Risk Doctor at the Experts’ Forum

July 12, 2010

“The risk people are the business prevention people,” said David Hillson, at the beginning of his presentation at the Gower Experts’ Forum at the National Centre for Project Management. He pointed out that the results from the 2009 CHAOS report aren’t that much better than those when CHAOS started out: last year the survey reported [...]

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Today I’m at the Virtual Working Summit

July 7, 2010

Today I’m speaking at the Virtual Working Summit on the subject of using social media with virtual teams, in conversation with Dr Penny Pullan. Want to listen in?  It’s free, and here’s everything else you need to know: When can I listen? Each summit interview will be available from 8am UK time, 3am Eastern. Whenever [...]

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From the archives

July 5, 2010

Can you believe I’ve been blogging for four and a half years?  Time has flown past and in that time I’ve met some amazing people and done some really interesting projects.  Here’s a look back at what we were talking about: This time last year: Recovering troubled programmes.  The 5-step approach to recovering a programme [...]

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Two career resources

July 2, 2010

Two new career resources for you today: Stepping into Project Management Stepping into Project Management is a new website from Soma Bhattacharya which aims to pair novice and experienced project managers together to form mentoring relationships. You might know Soma from her blog:  she’s an Assistant Project Manager who started out on her journey to [...]

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