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E-learning: a tool for project handover

May 18, 2009

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 [...]

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PM Events Round-up

May 9, 2009

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 [...]

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The future of knowledge technologies

April 29, 2009

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 [...]

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BCS IT Industry Awards

December 6, 2008

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 [...]

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W-Tech 2009

November 12, 2008

When I heard from Sarah Chidgey that BCS was organising a careers event for women in IT I was a bit worried it would end up being like the QS Women in Leadership Forum. I registered for one of the QS forums, only to find out that it was going to be like a big [...]

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