From the monthly archives:

December 2010

Merry Christmas!

December 23, 2010

It’s practically Christmas, and A Girl’s Guide to Project Management is winding down for the year with a nice glass of mulled wine and a slice of stollen cake. Thank you to everyone who has helped make blogging in 2010 so much fun. Thanks especially to the authors and publishers who have allowed me to [...]

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Giveaway winners for November

December 20, 2010

Last month I had great giveaways. Trish from Calgary and Scott from Minnesota both won copies of the Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More by Stever Robbins. Gemma from Plymouth, U.K. was first out of the hat in the newsletter giveaway and won a copy of Optimizing Human Capital with a [...]

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Solving project performance problems has to start at the top

December 15, 2010
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Austerity, explained Andy Murray, Director of Outperform, is a government policy of deficit cutting, lower spending and a reduction in the amount of benefits and public services provided. Murray was speaking at The Austerity Debate, a discussion at the historic Lloyd’s Register building in the City, about how project management is being affected by the [...]

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All I want for Christmas is a thick skin

December 14, 2010

Sorry this Monday post is late. I’ve got the session feedback back for my presentation on Social Media and Project Management at PMI’s Global Congress in October.  It’s mixed. 192 people attended the session, and 65 filled in the feedback forms.  Feedback ranged from: “It was awesome to hear her points and research.” “Outstanding.” “Extremely [...]

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Social Media and Project Management: a waste of time?

December 8, 2010

In this video, you’ll go behind the scenes at the podcast I recorded earlier this year with Paul Naybour from Parallel Project Training, Lindsay Scott from Arras People and How to Manage a Camel and Owain Wilson from the Association for Project Management. This is an extract of our morning as we were experimenting with [...]

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Why are people leaving project management?

December 6, 2010

Nada Abandah commented on Twitter recently that she knew people who were leaving project management jobs.  When I asked her why, she said they felt under-paid, under-appreciated and were fed up of being blamed for project failure. Leaving project management isn’t always bad.  I spoke to an ex-project manager, Ruth Malone, about why she left [...]

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Book signing – by post!

December 3, 2010

Charles Seybold from LiquidPlanner got in touch recently via Twitter, and said that if I was ever passing through Seattle I should stop by and sign his copy of Social Media for Project Managers.  Sadly, I think it will be a long time before I ever get to Seattle, so I did the next best [...]

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Speaking out at Girl Geek Dinners

December 1, 2010

I speak at events every so often, mainly to project management audiences, but occasionally to techies. For example, I spoke at a BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, event earlier this year on conflict management in teams, to their Young Professionals Group.  They were all much more technical than me – web developers, infrastructure people, [...]

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