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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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 now [...]

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.

Survey

May 16, 2008

Ten questions, ten minutes. An Master in Business Administration (MBA) student at Bucks New University is looking for people with experience of project management and the project management of information systems projects as part of her dissertation. She’s looking at impacts in project planning and performance in relation to risk, representation and bias. f you [...]

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 [...]

Olympic stakeholders

February 10, 2008

I was at the International Congress for Project, Programme and Risk Management last Wednesday and Thursday and listened to some really interesting speakers. Liz Underhill, Programme Manager for the London Olympics Programme, spoke early on the first day about the progress so far on planning for the Games. What struck me about her role is [...]

Project governance for Parliament

October 22, 2007

This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series Failing projects

The construction of the new Scottish Parliament building is a good example of how things can go so wrong on a project. The innovative design was in its early stages when the procurement process started. Architects were bidding to deliver something within a specification of 20,740 m² and £50m. At this point, there were no [...]

Career know-how from people who’ve done it

September 6, 2007

This time last week I was at a BCS young professionals group event in London, listening to Owen King, Mark Bloodworth and Marc Holmes talking about how they got to where they are in their careers. Marc’s route meandered into software architecture, Owen knew what he wanted before he even graduated and Mark moved around [...]

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