Here’s a round-up of the latest happenings in the project management arena.
The Turing Lecture
I attended the 2010 Turing Lecture last month.  Professor Chris Bishop, Chief Research Scientist at Microsoft’s research lab in Cambridge, discussed the field of machine learning.  He talked about how uncertainty can be modeled and quantified using probabilities and how these techniques [...]

It doesn’t bode well when some of the brightest IT minds in the country can’t get the projector to work.  Sue Black covered it up well but yesterday’s BCS event didn’t get off to a flying start.
The evening was to discuss the perennial question of the lack of women in technical jobs and what can [...]

This is the last part in the Making Projects Work video debate series that has been running this week.  It’s short enough to watch during your tea break and the speakers talk about embedding change, better ways to do lessons learned and continuous improvement.

This is the third part in the Making Projects Work video debate series.  It’s a really short video, and it looks at whether or not we are making it too difficult for ourselves!

The final video will appear here tomorrow.

This is part two in the Making Projects Work video debate, which talks about teams and people.  Part one was yesterday, and there next bit will be here tomorrow!

“This lecture pays due tribute to a lot of our computing heritage,” says Alan Pollard, BCS President in full regalia with a presidential medal around his neck.
I take my seat in the conference room of The Wellcome Trust.  It’s a beautiful space.  One of the best things about attending events is getting to nose around [...]

Projects involve change, and change normally means you have to encourage/cajole the people who are being changed into learning the new way of doing things.  Part of any project is to ensure that those changes are embedded, and we need to have tasks in the project plan equating to managing this business change.
Often, business change [...]

There’s a lot going on in the project management world right now, as we move into the summer there seem to be more and more events coming up.
The annual Lovelace lecture is next week (13 May), on the topic of ‘The Sins of IT Projects and why they can fail.’  It’s fully subscribed, but I’m [...]

I have been almost permanently hungry since Saturday and I have no idea why, but it’s not one of the symptoms of swine flu so I’m not too worried.  I knew that I wouldn’t be getting dinner until late last night as I was going to the Gurteen Knowledge Café, hosted by the BCS as [...]

The BCS held its annual IT Industry Awards on Thursday, at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane in London.  Everyone in the hotel was in black tie: there were are number of events taking place that evening but we were in the largest and grandest room, aptly titled The Great Room.
After the obligatory welcomes [...]