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Video diary: the PMI Leadership Institute Meeting

May 10, 2011

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

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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 [...]

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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,” [...]

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International Project Management Day: Is social media making projects more complex?

November 4, 2010

The theme of this year’s PMI UK Chapter International Project Management Day conference is ‘Complex Projects – Elegant Solutions’.  So, in keeping with that theme, I asked the question, is social media making projects more complex? Social media is a phenomenon that has hit businesses all round the world in recent years. It’s more than [...]

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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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Video Diary: PMI Congress Day 3

October 12, 2010

This is a review of Monday, 11 October at the Congress – it was a good day! Update 13/1/11: Video moved to Blip.tv so it should appear better now.

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Video Diary: PMI Congress Day 2

October 11, 2010

This is the video diary of yesterday’s Congress exploits, with the highlight being the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches we got in the afternoon break.  Oh, and Bill Clinton was there too.

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Video Diary: PMI Congress Day 1

October 10, 2010

**Updated 11/10/10** The video says ‘Sunday’s video diary’.  I posted it on Sunday but it is actually for the previous day, Saturday.  I’ll edit the video titles when I’m back in the UK.

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Join the Virtual Working Summit!

June 16, 2010

Is your project team scattered all over the place, and most of your meetings done on the phone?  Many project managers lead a virtual team and getting the best out of people and their time can be a challenge when you are not based in the same office. You can learn how to do work [...]

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PM News Round-up (yes, again already!)

April 2, 2010

It really is a busy Spring for project management.  Here’s another round-up of the latest news. New qualification for NGO Project Managers APMG is launching a new qualification aimed at project managers working in the development sector later this month.  Called, PMD Pro (Project Management in Development Professional), it was successfully piloted in South Africa [...]

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