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 [...]

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 [...]

What a great title for a book about social media marketing.  No Starch Press has a habit of turning out great books – I’ve recently reviewed Growing Software: Proven Strategies for Managing Software Engineers: Big Strategies for Managing Small Software Companies for The Computer Journal and that was also a fabulously produced, attractive and interesting [...]

Who are the project managers on Twitter?  This video was shot at the PMI Global Congress North America, where I met some of the project managers behind the ‘@’ signs.
You can follow us all by searching for #pmot on Twitter.

I had lunch today with Soma and her sister.  It’s Soma’s first trip to the UK and she has been out and about seeing the sites of London: Buckingham Palace, the parks, the London Eye, a river cruise – packing more tourist things into 10 days than I have in the 18 months I have [...]

There has been a fair amount of coverage in the UK press about the expectations of young people going into the workforce, especially around the services and provisions that their new employers should make.  Social networking is one of the options that new entrants to the workplace expect to have switched on.
The relationship works both [...]

This is the last in a four-part series on how project management is facing up to the challenges of the 21st century business environment.
I am noticing a shift towards working in a more 21st century way.  The focus for many recruiters is now on people who can demonstrate emotional intelligence (read more about that here) [...]

This mini-series is looking at how project management is facing the challenges of 21st century business practices.  Missed last week’s article on how project management is responding to those challenges?  Catch up here.
Today’s economy and business culture is not the same as the one that most of our project management tools were designed for.  The [...]

Last week I wrote about the challenges facing project management as a result of evolving business practices.  So, how is project management responding to these challenges?
Frankly, I don’t think that we are.

71% of projects fail each year
Projects achieve 93% of what they set out to deliver…
… and take 84% more time than planned

You have probably [...]

At the APM conference last month I spoke about the challenges facing project managers working in a 21st Century business environment.
I first got interested in this as a topic when I started working in healthcare about 18 months ago.  The speed of advancements in healthcare technology is incredible, and every week there’s something new in [...]