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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m taking a Christmas break, to rest and recuperate from all the Christmas parties!!
This is a photo of me and Wally Moore, PMI’s manager for business and government relations at a recent Economist event honouring innovation projects.  You can read more about the evening and the award winners on PMTips.net.
A Girl’s Guide to Project Management [...]

The lovely people at Computer Weekly announced the winners of the IT Blog Awards last night at a presentation at Shoreditch House.  And I’m really pleased to say that – thanks to you all – I won the Project Management category!  I was also the runner up in the IT Professional Female category – Flynny’s [...]

It’s International Project Management Day!  At least, I think it is.   PMI celebrated on 3rd November (although their UK Chapter is celebrating on the 17th and their Greece Chapter on the 6th), IIL celebrated yesterday and I actually have 17th November in my diary – not sure where that came from.
Regardless – of when it [...]

Are you still not feeling like an Office Goddess, despite all the tips so far this year?  This event will have you feeling like work is a breeze and you’ll be ready to hit the town.
And it’s in aid of Refuge, so you can feel all worthy at the same time!  What’s not to love?
It’s [...]

Ah, Earned Value Analysis.  If only I loved it enough to attend this 2-day conference about it next week.  Or cared enough about it.  Or even understood why the majority of PMs I know don’t bother with it at all.
Still, if you are an EV aficionado, EVA14 is for you.  According to the organisers, “Earned [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]