From the category archives:

Events

Event: Social Media for Project Managers

May 31, 2010

I’ll be presenting to the APM’s Women in Project Management SIG on 10 June, and you are invited. We’ll be talking about how project managers can use social media.  I’ll be presenting this: There’s a revolution happening in project management: social media tools are finding their way from branding and marketing to the hub of [...]

Read more

More on PMD Pro

May 24, 2010

Back in 2007, a group of NGO’s met in Baltimore.  They realised that their projects were over or under spent and ineffective.  “Because we are positive people we saw this as an opportunity,” said John Cropper, Global Programme Co-ordinator for Oxfam’s Raising Her Voice programme.  They wanted to do something “by the sector for the [...]

Read more

The launch of PMD Pro

May 5, 2010

Please excuse my amateur video skills! This one didn’t come out as well as I had hoped.  The transcript for the video is below. Elizabeth Harrin: Well, good morning. I’m here at the National Council for Volunteer Organisations in London just around from King’s Cross. I’m looking at Regent’s Canal. It’s a great location. And [...]

Read more

Lean, Six Sigma and Project Management together

April 28, 2010

I attended my first PMI UK Chapter meeting recently and the topic was Lean Six Sigma and Project Management: A Marriage Made in Heaven? I’m not sure what marriage had to do with it, but the presenter, Ishai Perelman, PMP, Master Black Belt and a senior managing consultant with Pcubed, certainly pointed out the links [...]

Read more

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 [...]

Read more

PM News round-up

January 27, 2010

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 [...]

Read more

Tomorrow’s Women, Tomorrow’s World

January 22, 2010

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 [...]

Read more

Christmas break!

December 17, 2009

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 [...]

Read more

The Blog Awards!

November 26, 2009

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 [...]

Read more

Happy International Project Management Day!

November 6, 2009

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 [...]

Read more

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →