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My projects

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 was [...]

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Social Media for Project Managers: survey

January 1, 2010

Happy New Year!
You might have seen the little pop-up box which is appearing on this blog at the moment* which talks about a survey.
I’m writing a new book on the role of social media and enterprise collaboration tools in a project environment, and I am interested in gathering your experiences – positive or negative.  The [...]

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News roundup

September 5, 2009

I was interviewed recently by Pawel Brodzinski, who writes the great Software Project Management blog.  The interview was around project management approaches and forms part of a series he is running.  He actually asked really hard questions!  Read the interview here.
Wellingtone (the people who do the salary surveys but occasionally send out pointless reports) have [...]

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Project management tips – from me!

February 4, 2009

Want to know the thing I found hardest when I first started managing projects?  Or what to read to stay informed?  Read the interview with me at Project Management Bistro for the answers!

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Status report: New Year’s resolutions

February 1, 2009

Here’s an update on my New Year’s resolutions:
Task:  abstain from alcohol while in the UK during January
RAG* Status: Green
Progress report: Total alcohol consumed during the calendar month of January:  1.5 glasses of wine, 1 white wine spritzer, 1 Frangelico.  Of this, the spritzer was consumed in the UK.  Of the two overseas trips, totalling [...]

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Runner bean mystery revealed!

June 4, 2008

I got impatient about why there was nothing coming up in my pot of runner beans. And I needed the flower pot for something else, so I figured if it wasn’t going to sprout then I’d reuse the soil and the pot for a begonia instead. I tipped it all out to fish [...]

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The Garden Project

May 12, 2008

I have a garden again. Last summer I was between homes. The summer before that I managed to get a few runner beans out of a pot in the courtyard of my Paris flat. But I’m pretty sure that the constant smoking from my neighbors stunted the plant’s growth. And maybe [...]

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Something to listen to

April 15, 2008

I had the opportunity to speak to Ron Holohan at The pm411.org recently.  We spoke about office politics, techniques for self-promotion, communicating with project stakeholders and loads of other things (yes, including my book, although you won’t have heard these case studies before).  You can listen to the podcast here.
Ron has a really dry sense [...]

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Eight random facts about me

October 25, 2007

Back at the beginning of August I was tagged for this meme by Mike Ramm, over at Stop and Think! I have no idea where it started, but the rules for the 8 Random Facts About Me meme are:

Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves which others do not know about them.
People [...]

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Be a helicopter

July 9, 2007

In a new job, it’s hard to know what details are important and what you can let slip in one ear and out the other. So I’ve been trying to soak up everything – a strategy which has been moderately successful. I’ve picked up a lot of low-level detail and, not yet knowing [...]

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