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How Social Media Changes Project Management

February 1, 2010

Today, Andrew Filev, who writes the fab Project Management 2.0 blog, and I are swapping posts.  We agreed on the loose topic of social media and project management.  Andrew has a great deal of knowledge on enterprise 2.0 and social media, so I’m glad to have him as a guest author today.  You can read [...]

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Complexity in mega IT projects

November 11, 2009

“Everyone thinks they are the big boss,” says Laura Aziz.  “Everyone thinks they are managing the others.”  It’s one of the complexities that Laura is managing as part of putting the IT systems into a massive 7-star hospital in the Middle East: complete with wifi, electronic mediccal records and video conferencing.  It’s a multi-year, multi-phase [...]

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Do this! A research study for you

July 25, 2009

Back in February I interviewed Chris Haigh, who was doing an MSc in Project Management and had recently won a Shell Step award for one of his projects.
Chris is now at the point of putting together his final bits for his MSc, from which he graduates later this year.  His research project is about emotional [...]

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Five things I want to do before I’m 35

April 1, 2009

I’ve just come back from Jukkasjärvi in Sweden, a place I’ve wanted to visit for ever because it’s where they build the magnificent Ice Hotel every year.  It was on the list of things to do before I hit 30, but I didn’t make it.
It struck me as a coincidence that just as I came [...]

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Risks, improv and chocolate

March 5, 2009

“Most books on branding,” Adam says, “focus on what it takes for a brand to be great: follow these steps, tick the boxes on a flow chart.”
“PRINCE2 training is just like that,” I reply.  “If you complete these documents your project will be a success. That’s not how things work in the real world.”
I’m talking [...]

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Chris Haigh: project manager to be

February 26, 2009

The economic situation being as it is, things are not so rosy in the garden of recruitment.  While all the signs are that project managers are not being hit as hard as other roles there are also signs that things will get worse.  So it’s heartening to know that there are people who still want [...]

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Winner of Young Project Manager award

January 23, 2009

Edward Logan won the International Young Project Manager award recently, and collected his trophy at the IPMA conference in Rome at the end of last year.  I interviewed him for Projects@Work, and you can read what he had to say about the whole thing here.

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Laura reaches Level A

October 6, 2008

Laura Magahy is Managing Director of MCO Projects Ltd, which she established in 2000 together with a colleague.  MCO is a project management, architecture and environmental engineering company, specialising in 4D planning, healthcare and sustainable development in the public and private sectors.
She’s also the first woman in Ireland to hold the IPMA Level A certification [...]

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Happy Birthday Girl Geek Dinners!

September 1, 2008

Last Thursday I had dinner in Café Royle – Google’s staff canteen. Google were hosting a birthday event for Girl Geek Dinners (strapline: definitely does compute) to celebrate their third anniversary.
Girl Geek Dinners is a bit of a phenomenon. Sarah Blow set up the non-profit community in London over three years ago and [...]

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Proud postings

June 16, 2008

At the end of March Bas de Baar over at the Project Shrink started a series called Proud Postings and recently he featured me. I’m on holiday this week, so have a read of that while I’m away.

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