From the monthly archives:

November 2010

Conversations for Change

November 29, 2010

This is a guest post by Shawn Kent Hayashi, of The Professional Development Group. Many wonderful experiences and products were born out of a smart project manager recognizing the differences in needs, identifying unmet needs, and working through a conflict to find a resolution. Slowing down when faced with conflict helps us to stay aware [...]

The 8 dangers of implementing Agile

November 24, 2010

As if adopting Agile wasn’t scary enough, Keith Richards from KRC talked about the 8 dangers of Agile at the APM conference last month. And here they are: It arrives bottom up “We don’t really want the techies taking over the organisation,” said Keith. “This bottom up stuff is a bit dangerous.” He made the [...]

PMP and PRINCE2 working together

November 22, 2010

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

The Inside PRINCE2 series continues with this look at how PRINCE2 and PMP are compatible. In this video Peter Milsom, Executive Program Manager at Aegian Consulting Service Corporation, talks about why he chose to take PRINCE2 when he was already a PMP.

A Girl’s Guide to Project Management is Blog of the Year!

November 19, 2010

I attended the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards last night, as I’d been nominated in the Project Management category. And… I won! I also won the Blog of the Year award, selected by the judges and IBM who were the sponsor, and I was runner up in the IT Professional Female category, which was won [...]

Social Media for Project Managers giveaway winners

November 19, 2010

Last month I ran two giveaways to win copies of Social Media for Project Managers, my new book. The winners were: Karrie from Edmonton, Canada Theresa from Long Beach, California, U.S.A., who also won a copy of Social Media and Virtual Teams on CD, as she was the newsletter winner. What? You don’t get the [...]

3 books to help you use social media to connect with customers

November 17, 2010

My new book, Social Media for Project Managers, is about using social media and enterprise collaboration tools to work more effectively within an organisation to deliver projects. But what about connecting with customers? Social media is also great for marketing, branding and communication with external groups: customers, government bodies, lobby groups and so on. There [...]

Why use Kanban?

November 15, 2010

In this video I ask Josh Nankivel from pmStudent.com why he has chosen to use Kanban for managing the tasks for his project team. A transcript of this video is below. Elizabeth Harrin: Hello! My name is Elizabeth Harrin from the blog “A Girl’s Guide to Project Management” and I’m here today with a fellow [...]

Giveaway: Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More

November 12, 2010

Ever wanted to know how to get more done in a day? You need the Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More. It’s an intensely practical guide to fitting more into the time you have, through better prioritisation, less procrastination and, erm, ‘leverage’ which seems to be getting others to do things [...]

Debunking Agile

November 10, 2010

Agile is: Change friendly Iterative Collaborative Chunked delivery Communications focused Business focused Scope tolerant Quality focused (if you do it correctly!) These were the themes that set the tone for Keith Richards’ presentation at the APM Conference in London last month. “The basics of project management seem to have been thrown away with some Agile,” [...]

Book Review: Acting Up Brings Everyone Down

November 8, 2010

Acting Up Brings Everyone Down, the new book from Nick McCormick, is subtitled The Impacts of Childish Behavior in the Workplace. The contents can be summed up in McCormick’s favourite piece of advice from the book: Don’t Be A Jerk. The book looks at how behaviour in the workplace often mimics behaviour you’d more likely [...]

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