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My projects

The Christmas project

December 18, 2006

Wouldn’t you think that a project manager would find it easy to prepare for Christmas? Sorting out all the presents, making sure she doesn’t miss the last posting date for cards, using trips to various relatives in the preceding months to drop off parcels in advance. Unfortunately, it seems that the better I am at [...]

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The Parisian project manager’s breakfast

November 13, 2006

Following my (rather dismissive) comments about recognition breakfasts for project managers on Projects@Work, I thought it would be interesting to consider what breakfast choices are available to the busy PM, in case anyone close to me feels like laying on a recognition breakfast in my honour to celebrate International Project Management Day – albeit it [...]

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What does a PM do all day?

October 16, 2006

I was given a fab new wheelie suitcase as a gift at the weekend, which is great as I seem to be doing a lot of travelling at the moment. On the way to the UK at the weekend I found myself sitting next to a guy in a leather jacket. He obviously wasn’t taking [...]

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Launch week

October 2, 2006

Last week was all go, so I was glad to have last weekend in Villefranche-sur-Mer, looking at the houses set into the cliffs, making the most of a little bit of free time before the project kicked off. Launch week for any project is always busy, but it’s my favourite time. It’s the moment when [...]

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Organising the drowning girl

June 20, 2006

Why is it that some weeks make you feel like you’re drowning and in others you’re just driftwood in the sea of project management, bobbing along with not a care in the world? This week has been a drowning week.  I have found myself with two miniscule projects to sort out, and the smaller the [...]

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On cows

June 12, 2006

There’s a good article about scope management on Projects@Work this week. How does that relate to this picture of a cow? Here’s how (warning: it’s a very tenuous link): Cow Parade has hit Paris, and now finally we have some sun it is great to get out and visit the cows. This is my favourite [...]

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Finally, I feel like a PM again…

May 25, 2006

This post is late too.  Sorry – it won’t become a regular habit, but here’s a warning for next Monday:  as I’m getting the sleeper train back from Nice late Sunday night I doubt I’ll be in much of a state to post anything lucid after getting off the train and going straight to work. [...]

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WiPM

May 8, 2006

There are 2,552 members in the Women in Project Management special interest group of the Project Management Institute, which, all credit to them, makes that group the 5th largest virtual group within the giant which is the PMI. And some of those members are men. Frankly, I’m not surprised that the WiPM group is doing [...]

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Licences and long timescales

May 1, 2006

Touching wood last week must have worked as lo and behold, after a few days of stamping my feet in a Gallic way my licences have arrived.  And I already have one very happy client holding meetings with our Australian office, albeit rather cruelly on a Friday morning.  Which is 6.30 pm Oz-time, when our [...]

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The e-conferencing saga continues

April 23, 2006

The free pilot for our e-conferencing software finished at the end of February and we then decided to purchase some licences.  Last week, finally, I heard that they were on the way.  When my IT contact dropped in to my office she handed me a CD, ready for installation on a server somewhere.  It was [...]

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