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July 5, 2010

Can you believe I’ve been blogging for four and a half years?  Time has flown past and in that time I’ve met some amazing people and done some really interesting projects.  Here’s a look back at what we were talking about:
This time last year: Recovering troubled programmes.  The 5-step approach to recovering a programme and [...]

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Carnival of Project Management 32#

May 7, 2010

Welcome to the April/May 2010 edition of carnival of project management.  I’m a bit behind – you should have had this on Monday, but it was a bank holiday here.
My favourite submission this time comes from Elyse Nielsen: Balancing the Constraints posted at Anticlue, saying, “One of the key components is to exploit the constraints [...]

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Carnival of Project Management #25

March 1, 2009

Woo!  This February/March 2009 edition is the 25th Carnival of Project Management and it feels like we should be celebrating this milestone.  So get yourself a full-fat Mocha Frappuccino, and start clicking some links.

Rich Maltzman, PMP presents Not yawning. Neither doing cartwheels. posted at Scope crêpe, which is a great snapshot summary of views [...]

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Looking for a new job?

January 30, 2009

With the economy being as it is, there are plenty of people job hunting at the moment, although project management roles are not being hit as hard as other sectors.  Still, if you are in the market for a new role, project-management-jobs.info may help.  Lonnie Pacelli has started a site to bring together resources for [...]

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Wiki ahoy!

January 14, 2009

The ICPM is starting a wiki for project management and I’m surprised at the information that is already on there, given they haven’t had it up and running for very long.  If you’d like to contribute, it’s easy.  Go to the Table of Contents, find a page that you have something to say about and [...]

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Site updates

September 21, 2008

I have now enabled this site to work with gravatars, so if you post a comment your image will appear.  I’ve also re-structured some of the categories, splitting out book and software reviews and adding a new ‘events’ category for things that don’t fall neatly into ‘networking’ or ‘conferences’.
I’ve also added PM Majik to the [...]

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Equal pay – your chance to speak!

June 27, 2008

Intellect are running their equal pay survey again this year so if you have five minutes to spare to comment on equal pay audits and the perception of equal pay, then click over to the survey and fill it in.
This is being carried out as part of Intellect’s Women in IT Forum programme and there [...]

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A glossary of terms

June 9, 2008

I came across this recently. If you are new to project management you might find it interesting. It’s TechRepublic’s glosssary of PM terms, which you can use as a starting point for getting to grips with a whole new language. It’s not complete but it’s a useful springboard.

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Carnival of project management #20

May 28, 2008

Welcome to the May 26, 2008 edition of carnival of project management. Thirty-one entries this month, so here is what made the cut:

lazymale presents “5 common scheduling mistakes” posted at lap31 “are you ready to lead?”.

Rich Maltzman, PMP presents Project Managers: Don’t Get the Point! posted at Scope crêpe, saying, “Don’t get the [...]

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New Knowledge Base tool

March 24, 2008

Knowledge Base from The Projects Group (TPG) has been up and running for a month now and it is a very impressive tool. It works a lot like the project management search engine on PMConnection. However, PMConnection’s search is Google-based and will search websites and blogs. Knowledge Base draws on different information, [...]

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