Lots of little announcements today.
So What giveaway: last few days
If you haven’t entered the giveaway to win a copy of Mark Magnacca’s book So What?: How to Communicate What Really Matters to Your Audience you have until Friday.  Find out how to enter here.
Social Media in a Project Environment survey
I’ve had over 200 responses to [...]

In this final instalment of the ‘working together’ series, I’ll be looking at how to improve the working relationships between project managers and business analysts.
Changing working relationships is often more about culture than concrete tasks, but there are some things you can do to smooth any blips in the way that project managers and business [...]

Last week I wrote about what project managers value when working with business analysts.  This week I want to focus on what we don’t.
Don’t worry: it’s not that bad!
The differences in the ways that project managers work and the ways that business analysts work means that it’s not always easy to work together.
For example, project [...]

Last week I wrote about the way that project managers work, and how this relates to OTOBOS.  This week I want to explain what project managers value in our working relationships with business analysts.
Project managers see BAs as architects.  They are detailed, they decide on and build solutions, they work in a methodical way.  There [...]

About a month ago I spoke at the Business Analysis Conference about how project managers work, and how business analysts and project managers can work together more successfully.  As you can imagine, telling a room full of BAs that project managers don’t want to hear all that detail and analysis paralysis was received with a [...]

“Everyone thinks they are the big boss,” says Laura Aziz.  “Everyone thinks they are managing the others.”  It’s one of the complexities that Laura is managing as part of putting the IT systems into a massive 7-star hospital in the Middle East: complete with wifi, electronic mediccal records and video conferencing.  It’s a multi-year, multi-phase [...]

This video has highlights from all three days: bits I couldn’t fit into the daily diaries from the PMI Global Congress North America in Orlando this month.  Enjoy!

“It’s really an exciting time for project management despite the economy,” says Greg Balestrero, CEO of PMI, as we sit around the board room table.  “There’s a shift towards executing that we haven’t seen before.”  It’s the final day at the PMI Global Congress in Orlando, and Greg seems very happy about how the event [...]

I have found one of the lost pens, and had  a great time at the Universal Studios reception tonight!

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