From the monthly archives:

November 2011

Thank you! I’m IT Professional Blogger of the Year

November 30, 2011

It was the Computer Weekly Social Media Awards 2011 last night, and I was nominated in two categories. I won IT Professional Blogger of the Year, which was fabulous! Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to vote for me. Project management was poorly represented in the awards (we didn’t have our [...]

What is Imposter Syndrome?

November 28, 2011

This is an extract from Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Ten Strategies to Stop Feeling Like a Fraud at Work. This new ebook launches next week and I thought you might like a sneak preview! When Pauline Clance was in graduate school, she was constantly worrying that she wasn’t good enough. She didn’t think her performance in [...]

The PMI Leadership Institute Meeting and Global Congress North America Roundup

November 25, 2011

There was a lot of online activity at this year’s PMI Leadership Institute Meeting and Global Congress this year, more than I’ve seen before. Here’s my round up of the best articles and commentary about the events. Blog posts Michael Moss writes about Congress Day 2, including the key note speakers and the contest to [...]

Please vote in the Computer Weekly Social Media Awards!

November 21, 2011

It’s the 4th Annual Computer Weekly Social Media Awards, and I am delighted to say that this year I have been nominated in two categories: Best Use of Social Media – Individual (under my name, Elizabeth Harrin) and IT Professional Blogger of the Year (for A Girl’s Guide to Project Management). There isn’t a project [...]

The Project Manager and the Business Analyst – a Perfect Mix or the Perfect Storm?

November 16, 2011

This is a guest post by Penny Pullan, Director, Making Projects Work. Project manager and business analyst: both are key roles in today’s projects. The business analyst knows and understands the business needs and the project manager delivers a solution to meet those needs. It seems like a perfect mix, or is it? I’m Penny [...]

Book review: Managing Business Transformation

November 14, 2011

Projects change things. Some projects change a lot of things, and business transformation is a big, scary subject. How do you get from here to your vision of the future without it just being all about tasks and deliverables? How do you win people over to the new way of working? Melanie Franklin‘s new book, [...]

What can we do to encourage women into IT project management?

November 11, 2011

Last week, the BCS’s Project Eye blogged about the low numbers of women entering science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) to pursue careers. Project and programme management is still required in this fields – so given that women choose project management as a career, why aren’t they choosing it in STEM areas? I’ve teamed up [...]

Female breadwinners: an interview with Suzanne Doyle-Morris

November 9, 2011

In 2009, the book that affected me most was Beyond The Boy’s Club, a book about career strategies for women in male dominated fields. I don’t work in a male dominated field, but I thought it was full of advice I put into play (and I’ve been promoted in the intervening years, so it worked). [...]

Synergy 2011

November 7, 2011

Last Thursday was International Project Management Day, and, along with 800 other project managers, I attended Synergy, a ‘day of celebration’ in London. None of us really knew what to expect. It had never been billed as a traditional conference and it was held at the IndigO2, part of the O2 arena which mainly hosts [...]

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