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Behind the scenes at Project Management in the Collaborative Age

February 1, 2012

For those of you who would prefer to read rather than watch the video, here’s the transcript: Elizabeth Harrin: I’ve come to Victoria in London and I am looking for the Microsoft offices. I’m going to be chairing a round table discussion there today about project management in the collaborative age, and the things that [...]

For she’s a jolly good Fellow…

June 15, 2011

I’m delighted to announce that the APM’s youngest ever female fellow has been appointed and her name is… Elizabeth Harrin. – Penny Pullan, CoChair, WiPM SIG I have had the results from my application for Fellowship of the Association for Project Management – and I’m now a Fellow! (Thanks to Brendan for the title of [...]

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 [...]

The 8 dangers of implementing Agile

November 24, 2010

As if adopting Agile wasn’t scary enough, Keith Richards from KRC talked about the 8 dangers of Agile at the APM conference last month. And here they are: It arrives bottom up “We don’t really want the techies taking over the organisation,” said Keith. “This bottom up stuff is a bit dangerous.” He made the [...]

Debunking Agile

November 10, 2010

Agile is: Change friendly Iterative Collaborative Chunked delivery Communications focused Business focused Scope tolerant Quality focused (if you do it correctly!) These were the themes that set the tone for Keith Richards’ presentation at the APM Conference in London last month. “The basics of project management seem to have been thrown away with some Agile,” [...]

Event: Social Media for Project Managers

May 31, 2010

I’ll be presenting to the APM’s Women in Project Management SIG on 10 June, and you are invited. We’ll be talking about how project managers can use social media. I’ll be presenting this: There’s a revolution happening in project management: social media tools are finding their way from branding and marketing to the hub of [...]

PRINCE2 and PMBoK: why both?

May 26, 2010

The OGC, the UK body that produces PRINCE2, is doing a lot at the moment to show how PRINCE2 supports and integrates with other project management standards and methods. Earlier this year, I shared a video with you about how PRINCE2 fits with APM’s body of knowledge. In this video, Andy Murray, the lead [...]

Inside PRINCE2: Working with APMP

March 1, 2010

This entry is part 3 of 11 in the series Inside PRINCE2

PRINCE2 is a well known qualification, but that doesn’t make it incompatible with other qualifications or project management methods. OGC has recently produced a white paper looking at APMP for PRINCE2 Practitioners. The white paper looks at the differences between the APMP qualification, which is one offered by APM and based on their Body of [...]

Lazy Giveaway: last few days

October 21, 2009

Let me guess: you’re adopting Peter Taylor’s ‘lazy’ project management principles and not doing anything until you really have to. Or you have done a forward pass and a backward pass through your tasks for this month using critical path method, and having calculated the float for each you realised that you could leave this [...]

APM Conference notes

December 3, 2008

If you weren’t able to attend the APM winter conference, you can get all the presentations and session notes online. APM have set up an impressive one-off blog to make everything available. They have also put all the official conference photos on Flickr here. There are two photos of me waving my arms around to [...]

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