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Signing books in Dublin

May 18, 2011

One of the best things about writing about project management is having the opportunity to travel and meet so many different people. At the PMI EMEA Congress in Dublin earlier this month I met Tarik, from Ajman University of Science and Technology in the U.A.E. This is a photo of us taken during my book [...]

Office Talk: How what you say impacts your project

May 16, 2011

Do you think about what you say at work? Alfonso Bucero certainly does. He presented at PMI Global Congress EMEA in Dublin recently on the subject of why we should choose our words carefully. “During many years as a project manager, I was not conscious about the consequences of the words I used with my [...]

Video Diary: PMI Global Congress EMEA Day 3

May 13, 2011

This is my final video diary from the PMI Global Congress EMEA 2011 in Dublin. Watch the video of Day 2 here. Watch the video of Day 1 here. Thanks to PMI who waived my Congress fees to enable me to attend this event.

Video Diary: PMI Global Congress EMEA Day 2

May 12, 2011

This is the video diary from Day 2 at PMI’s Global Congress EMEA in Dublin. See if you can spot Lindsay Scott, Thomas Juli and Luis Seabra Coelho. Watch the video from Day 3 here. Watch the video from Day 1 here.

Video diary: PMI Global Congress EMEA Day 1

May 11, 2011

This is the video diary of the first day at PMI’s Global Congress EMEA in Dublin. Watch the video of Day 2 here. Watch the video of Day 3 here.

Video diary: the PMI Leadership Institute Meeting

May 10, 2011

This video shows my day at the PMI Leadership Institute Meeting in Dublin.

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,” [...]

PMI Global Congress 2010 North America round up

October 22, 2010

PMI Global Congress generates a lot of blog posts, podcasts and videos. Here’s my round up of some of the best pieces to give you a flavour of the Congress. Some video diaries: Video Blog from Josh at pmStudent. ‘No Comment’ video about Day 1 from Cornelius at the Project Management Podcast (I’m in this [...]

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