Events

First Secondary School in UK to trial project management skills in the classroom (video)

March 6, 2013

This video shows the follow up for a project I first heard about at Synergy 2011: using project management techniques in UK schools to equip young people for school projects and also their future working lives. This video shows the end of that particular initiative and what happened at the school after the project management [...]

PMI Synergy Conference: video diary

November 16, 2012

Here is my video diary of my day at the PMI Synergy event for International Project Management Day. In it you’ll see Lord Digby Jones, Dame Tessa Jowell, Thomas Juli and some other footage from the day to give you an idea of what the conference was like. This video is approximately 7m37s long.

Project managing the Olympics: milestone timeline

July 16, 2012

With the Olympics kicking off in London next week, I’ve picked out the major project management milestones for the event in this timeline. Use the zoom bar to change the timescales. You can also move from left to right to see all the milestones. If you can’t see it properly, you can view it online [...]

Jubilee Projects!

June 4, 2012

“I’m project managing our street party,” a friend said on the phone last week. “We’ve got a team meeting next Saturday.” “And how much work will actually get done at this team meeting?” I asked her. “Ha! You know me so well….” I could imagine it: neighbours gathering in her spacious lounge, some early evening [...]

Synergy 2011

November 7, 2011

Last Thursday was International Project Management Day, and, along with 800 other project managers, I attended Synergy, a ‘day of celebration’ in London. None of us really knew what to expect. It had never been billed as a traditional conference and it was held at the IndigO2, part of the O2 arena which mainly hosts [...]

There’s no such thing as a bad decision

November 3, 2011

Today is International Project Management Day. Project management is a series of small (and sometimes big) decisions so today I wanted to talk about that. At work recently I had cause to question one of my decisions. I had made a decision that affected other people (as most decisions do). I communicated the decision, replanned [...]

Attracting young people to PM: interview with Chris Field

November 2, 2011

Tomorrow is International Project Management Day, and the UK’s big event to celebrate is Synergy. Over 1000 project managers are due to converge on the O2 arena in London. I spoke to Chris Field, who is the UK PMI Chapter President and one of the organisers. When there is so much doom and gloom, and [...]

How to Manage in a Matrix Structure Part 2: Dealing with the Challenges

July 4, 2011

In my last post about project management in a matrix structure I shared 4 challenges of that environment. This week I want to talk about how we can overcome these. This was a topic that Shilpa Arora, PMP, spoke about at a recent Women in Technology event. The 4 challenges she discussed were: Lack of [...]

How to Manage in a Matrix Structure Part 1: Understanding the Matrix

June 27, 2011

Most projects operate in some kind of matrixed environment. Project managers rarely have direct line management responsibility for all, if any, of the people on the project team. So how can we best get things done when we don’t control the team? In this article, I’ll explain what matrix management is and why it creates [...]

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