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London

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 [...]

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London riots: one week on

August 15, 2011

I was due to bring you a book review of On Top of Everything today. Instead, I wanted to interrupt the Summer of Books schedule to say thank you to everyone who has sent their thoughts and good wishes to us in London after the riots last week. The book review will now appear on [...]

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New Change

January 14, 2011
At New Change

Project management is everywhere – even in London street names.  This street is near St Paul’s Cathedral.  I’ve just been for lunch at the sushi restaurant nearby.

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Scope creep, shopping-style!

June 30, 2010

I try really hard not to let scope creep impose upon my projects, so why is it so difficult to stop it in the rest of my life? Despite my efforts to keep my language skills up since moving back to the UK from Paris, my French is rusty to the point where if it [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The business value of social media

March 22, 2010

Earlier in the month I attended a womenintechnology event about the business value of social media – something I’m particularly interested in, given the topic of my forthcoming book. The evening was held at the Intellect offices on Russell Square, and the room was packed.  It was a pretty small room, in comparison to some [...]

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Earned Value Analysis: the conference

June 1, 2009

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, [...]

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Keep it in perspective

May 20, 2009

A friend and I went to Kenwood House recently to see a photo exhibition.  We had arrived separately by bus and tube and felt very much like we were in London.  Until we walked on to Hampstead Heath. Laid out below us was London: the Swiss Re building, the Eye, Telecom Tower, St Paul’s, the [...]

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