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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 [...]

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. [...]

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 if it [...]

Making meetings work

July 2, 2007

I’ve just read Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders, and there’s a whole section on different types of meetings, what they are for and how they work. I read it and thought, ‘Everyone knows how to run a meeting, surely?’ Having said that, I’m spending a lot of time in and chairing meetings [...]

Things I’ve learned this week

June 18, 2007

Don’t sing in the photocopying room – you never know who will walk in. In fact, don’t sing in the office at all Johnson’s Holiday Skin body lotion won’t colour your legs, but it will turn your cuticles orange ‘Architected’ (as in ‘having had an architect look at and work on it’) is apparently a [...]

Meeting room C

June 4, 2007

New country (well, returning to the one I left). New city. New department. New commute. My relocation went pretty well, all things considered, although Hans’ confidence in my ability to get everything to the right place was a bit optimistic. I had to buy a new hairbrush, as mine is in storage somewhere. I also [...]

Moving

May 17, 2007

I’m moving house, so I will be temporarily separated from my PC. Even the thought of it gives me shivers. I knew it was going to happen, so this is a project I’ve been planning mainly on paper. All my notes are in a spiral bound book, which goes with me everywhere. Having said that, [...]

Upgrade weekend: a project that didn’t work out so well

April 9, 2007

If you tried to access A Girl’s Guide to Project Management over the weekend, you probably came up with an error message. Your feed might not have worked either. That’s because I moved servers and upgraded WordPress, all at the same time. Fortunately, I set aside the whole weekend to do it, as technology change [...]

Why I blog

March 5, 2007

So I got tagged by Christine Kane. Which means I have to come up with five reasons why I blog. After not very much thought, here are my reasons: 1. Because I wrote a book Many bloggers start off by web publishing and then move into traditional publishing, in the Petite Anglaise and Random Acts [...]

A bad day at the office

January 22, 2007

Sometimes it is not the work that makes work difficult, nor the people. Today the challenge that made my day more difficult than usual was something much more mundane: the arrival of a new telephone. It came with a three-fold leaflet explaining how to do a multitude of things, except set up my voicemail. A [...]

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