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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 [...]

A right Royal project

April 29, 2011

In case you’ve been living under a rock, today’s the day that Prince William of Wales marries Catherine Middleton, and it feels like London has been turned into one big Union Jack. I planned my wedding in Microsoft Project, and I’m not the only project manager who considered their big day worthy of proper planning. [...]

Join the PM Telesummit, 8-10 March

February 14, 2011

Do you feel that 2011 is rushing by too quickly? I can’t believe that February will soon be over already, and I haven’t made much progress on my New Year’s Resolutions. One thing I have committed to, though, is continuous professional development. I’m taking the Villanova course, and I’ll be attending the Project Management Telesummit [...]

The winning side: project management at Lloyd’s Register

January 5, 2011

“I left school with minimal qualifications,” said Roger Clutton, Programme Director at Lloyd’s Register Group Services Ltd. “I was probably programmed to feel not good at things.” Clutton is the self-confessed project manager for “horrible projects” at the risk management organisation which provides risk assessment and risk mitigation solutions across the UK. Lloyd’s started out [...]

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