From the monthly archives:

May 2011

Philanthropic projects: the PMI Educational Foundation

May 30, 2011

If you’ve been around projects for any length of time you have probably come across the Project Management Institute. You might even have heard of PMIEF: the PMI Educational Foundation. But what does it actually do? I thought it mainly sponsored research, but it turns out I was wrong. PMIEF’s Chair, John Rickards, gave a [...]

Managing up: how to help your managers help you

May 25, 2011

One of the questions I’m often asked is: “How do I get taken seriously at work?” And over my career I have asked myself that question as well. One way to build credibility in the workplace was explained by Dr Lynda Bourne recently at the PMI Global Congress EMEA in Dublin. Let’s talk about managing [...]

Using Social Media for Member Communications

May 23, 2011

This was the presentation I gave at the PMI Leadership Institute Meeting in Dublin earlier this month. Thanks to Adi at CMI for hosting this on Slideshare. For all that I sing the praises of social media, I don’t have my own Slideshare account!

Bug warning

May 20, 2011

Two people have got in touch to say that they have received virus/bug warnings when they have been surfing around A Girl’s Guide to Project Management. I was concerned and contacted the company who hosts my site. They have scanned their servers, found a rogue file and cleaned it up. If you’ve received virus warnings [...]

Signing books in Dublin

May 18, 2011

One of the best things about writing about project management is having the opportunity to travel and meet so many different people. At the PMI EMEA Congress in Dublin earlier this month I met Tarik, from Ajman University of Science and Technology in the U.A.E. This is a photo of us taken during my book [...]

Office Talk: How what you say impacts your project

May 16, 2011

Do you think about what you say at work? Alfonso Bucero certainly does. He presented at PMI Global Congress EMEA in Dublin recently on the subject of why we should choose our words carefully. “During many years as a project manager, I was not conscious about the consequences of the words I used with my [...]