Archive for the ‘PM 2.0’ Category

How Social Media Changes Project Management

Posted on February 1st, 2010 by by Elizabeth

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 [...]

Social Media for Project Managers: survey

Posted on January 1st, 2010 by by Elizabeth

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 [...]

Book review: Friends with Benefits

Posted on November 18th, 2009 by by Elizabeth

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 [...]

Project managers on Twitter

Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by by Elizabeth

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.

A blogging lunch

Posted on February 16th, 2009 by by Elizabeth

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 [...]

Blogging your job

Posted on January 28th, 2009 by by Elizabeth

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 [...]

Keeping up: Steps in the right direction

Posted on December 8th, 2008 by by Elizabeth

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) [...]

Keeping up: New ways of working

Posted on December 1st, 2008 by by Elizabeth

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 [...]

Keeping up: Responding to business challenges

Posted on November 24th, 2008 by by Elizabeth

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 [...]

Keeping up: aligning project management to real business

Posted on November 17th, 2008 by by Elizabeth

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 [...]

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