Day of Gratitude
This blog might be called A Girl’s Guide to Project Management, but the success of it isn’t just down to me. There are a lot of people who contribute to making it happen.
We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK (our November holiday celebrates the chap who didn’t manage to blow up Parliament in 1605) but that doesn’t mean we can’t give thanks. And when better to do it than now?
Here are the people who have contributed in some way to A Girl’s Guide to Project Management this year.
Companies who have let me review their software
- Digital Crew Application Developers: TeamworkPM
- Stand by Soft Ltd: RationalPlan
- Applicom: Apollo
- Websystems, Inc.: AceProject
People I have interviewed
- Suzanne Doyle-Morris
- Joanne Flinn
- Jeff Furman
- Penny Pullan (video)
- Rick Valerga
- Margaret Meloni
- Chris Field
- Jovia Nierenberg
And everyone I interviewed at project management events this year.
Publishers and authors who have sent me books to review
- Melanie Franklin (IT Governance), Managing Business Transformation
- Vineet Nayar (Harvard Business Review Press), Employees First, Customers Second
- Laurence H Seton, On Top Of Everything: Manage Your Projects and Life with Ease
- Emanuel Camilleri (Gower), Project Success: Critical Factors and Behaviours
- Karen B. Brown and Nancy Lea Hyer (McGraw-Hill/Irwin), Managing Projects: A Team Based Approach
- Rick Valerga, Projectegrity: Using Integrity to Make Your Project Great and The Cure for the Common Project
- John Estrella, Lessons Learned in Project Management
- Thomas Juli (CRC Press), Leadership Principles for Project Success
- Todd Williams (Amacom), Rescue the Problem Project
- Robert Bly (Career Press), Make Every Second Count
- The people at OGC for Management of Portfolios
- Stever Robbins (St. Martin’s Griffin), Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More
- Penny Pullan (Gower), A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk
- Lin Grensing-Pophal (Self Council Press), Managing Off-Site Staff for Small Business
- Tom Kendrick (Amacom), 101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them
- Guy Kawasaki (Penguin), Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds and Actions
- Joanne Flinn (John Wiley & Sons), The Success Healthcheck for IT Projects
- J. Kent Crawford and Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin (Auerbach Publications), Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office
- Karen R. J. White (PM Solutions), Agile Project Management: A Mandate for the 21st Century
And a few personal thank yous to:
- Computer Weekly, for making it possible for me to win the IT Professional Blogger of the Year award (and to the people who voted for me)
- Jonathan and Pauline
- Cornelius
- Joanne, for her help behind the scenes
And you. Without readers, there is no point in writing at all.
I hope I haven’t missed anyone off the list, and if I have, I’m sorry. Who is on your gratitude list this year? Let us know in the comments.