From the monthly archives:

September 2010

Can you wait 58 years to earn the same as your male colleagues?

September 30, 2010

Just as Sarah Brown is launching her new initiative, Women: Inspiration and Enterprise, we get news of more evidence of discrepancies in women’s pay. The good news is that according to CMI research, this year our salaries rose by 2.8% compared to 2.3% for men. The bad news is that we are still way behind [...]

David Cleden at the Experts’ Forum

September 29, 2010

“I don’t think there are any magic bullets to deal with the uncertainty we face,” said David Cleden, when he presented at the Gower/NCPM Experts’ Forum earlier this year. His presentation was on organisational strategies for dealing with uncertainty. Cleden brought up the famous ‘known/unknowns’ diagram and pointed out that the commonly-seen version with four [...]

Daptiv PPM: What’s new?

September 27, 2010

This summer, Daptiv’s acquisition by Parallax Capital Partners created a fair amount of chatter by the industry’s water coolers. The acquisition didn’t distract the team from the new release of Daptiv PPM. I caught up with the new CEO, John Baldwin, to find out the latest. “The Greenhouse is a part of our online community [...]

Software news round up

September 24, 2010

Learn PMP on your iPhone You can now get PMP Exam eFlashCards as an iPhone app! It’s a fully functional app offering over 1,750 exam Flash Cards, divided into 15 categories for targeted studies. You can click on each Flash Card to indicate whether you answered the question correctly or not, and get a summary [...]

Projecturf: What’s New?

September 20, 2010

Last year I reviewed Projecturf and found it wanting. At the time, Chuck Pearson, the CEO, told me about the new features that would address some of my concerns about the software that were coming as a result of version 2.0. Version 2.0 is now here, so it’s a great time to catch up with [...]

Clarizen: What’s new?

September 17, 2010

Everyone seems to be releasing new software at the moment, and Clarizen is no exception. Version 4.8 of their project management software is now out and it has several new features including resource load simulation that allows users to perform what-if-simulation on resource assignments. This is a great feature, because it allows you to model [...]

Zombie Project Management

September 15, 2010

Last week I published a project management alphabet, and I admit it, I had a hard time coming up with terms for some of the less common letters. I ended up using Zombie Project Management for the letter Z. So, what is Zombie PM? Does this sound like someone you know? They do exactly what [...]

Genius Project 6.6: What’s new?

September 13, 2010

It’s been nearly a year since I last looked at Genius Project. The team has been working on some new features, and I was keen to find out what they meant for users. I spoke to Christophe Borlat, the managing director of Genius Inside, to find out what’s new. Christophe, Genius Project 6.6 is billed [...]

A Project Alphabet

September 10, 2010

The July issue of Project Management Tipoffs from Arras People included their fun attempt at updating the phonetic alphabet, along with a challenge to readers to have a go at creating their own. Here’s my attempt, with a distinctly PM feel: Want to know what Zombie PM is? I’ll tell you next week!

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