From the monthly archives:

January 2011

The Value of Contract Management Fundamentals for Every Project Manager

January 31, 2011

This is a guest post by Rick Graham, an instructor with ESI International. During the late 1910s and early 1920s, the Ford Motor Corporation constructed the world’s largest industrial complex along the banks of the Rouge River in Dearborn, Michigan. Henry Ford’s vision of mass production included not only the first production lines, but also [...]

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Can we use Facebook to manage projects?

January 26, 2011

“What about Facebook for project managers?” is a question I’m asked a lot when I talk to people about social media tools for project managers. As you know, I’m a big believer in the benefits that social media tools can offer project managers.  But when I’m asked about Facebook I always say that I don’t [...]

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Software review: AceProject

January 24, 2011

General information Name: AceProject Vendor: Websystems, Inc. Hosting options: There is a web hosted version and a version you can host yourself Cost and plans: Free for basic accounts with 5 users and 5 projects.   This only gives you 50 tasks which doesn’t seem very much at all to me.  There is a sliding scale [...]

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Social Media in a Project Environment: 2011 Survey

January 19, 2011

This year I am once again running the Social Media in a Project Environment survey.  This time last year lots of you completed the survey and the results provided a snapshot of how social media tools were being used by project managers and in project environments. This year I have tweaked the survey slightly to [...]

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Managing a Film Project

January 17, 2011
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How do you keep the production of a film on time, on budget and on scope?  In this video I discuss these issues with short film producer, Michael Savva.  A transcript follows, or you can view the transcript as a .pdf file. Elizabeth Harrin: Well, hello! I’m Elizabeth Harrin from A Girl’s Guide to Project [...]

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New Change

January 14, 2011
At New Change

Project management is everywhere – even in London street names.  This street is near St Paul’s Cathedral.  I’ve just been for lunch at the sushi restaurant nearby.

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2011: The Year to Get Registered or Chartered?

January 12, 2011

APM has been campaigning for Chartered Project Professional status for some time.  It hasn’t happened yet, and they have now brought out Registered Project Professional status.  I think this is a watered-down version of being Chartered, and it might reflect their frustration at the Chartered process taking so long. APM Registered Project Professional (RPP) is [...]

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Book review: Agile Project Management: A Mandate for the 21st Century

January 10, 2011
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“[T]he time has come when we need to admit we (the program/project manager, business customer, product architect/designer, other stakeholders) do not know the solutions to the problems… and indeed, that “we” – our methods, our habits, our leadership styles, our assumptions – are part of the problem,” writes Karen R. J. White in her book, [...]

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The winning side: project management at Lloyd’s Register

January 5, 2011

“I left school with minimal qualifications,” said Roger Clutton, Programme Director at Lloyd’s Register Group Services Ltd.  “I was probably programmed to feel not good at things.”  Clutton is the self-confessed project manager for “horrible projects” at the risk management organisation which provides risk assessment and risk mitigation solutions across the UK. Lloyd’s started out [...]

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Get 15% off Project Management in the Real World, plus Kindle and pdf editions now available!

January 3, 2011

Happy New Year! And happy birthday to me. This month is the 5th birthday of A Girl’s Guide to Project Management.  2011 is also the 5th anniversary year of the publication of Project Management in the Real World. To celebrate all these events, I have some great news to share. Project Management in the Real [...]

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