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The Risk Doctor at the Experts’ Forum

July 12, 2010

“The risk people are the business prevention people,” said David Hillson, at the beginning of his presentation at the Gower Experts’ Forum at the National Centre for Project Management. He pointed out that the results from the 2009 CHAOS report aren’t that much better than those when CHAOS started out: last year the survey reported [...]

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PRINCE2 and PMBoK: why both?

May 26, 2010

The OGC, the UK body that produces PRINCE2, is doing a lot at the moment to show how PRINCE2 supports and integrates with other project management standards and methods.   Earlier this year, I shared a video with you about how PRINCE2 fits with APM’s body of knowledge.  In this video, Andy Murray, the lead [...]

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More on PMD Pro

May 24, 2010

Back in 2007, a group of NGO’s met in Baltimore.  They realised that their projects were over or under spent and ineffective.  “Because we are positive people we saw this as an opportunity,” said John Cropper, Global Programme Co-ordinator for Oxfam’s Raising Her Voice programme.  They wanted to do something “by the sector for the [...]

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The launch of PMD Pro

May 5, 2010

Please excuse my amateur video skills! This one didn’t come out as well as I had hoped.  The transcript for the video is below. Elizabeth Harrin: Well, good morning. I’m here at the National Council for Volunteer Organisations in London just around from King’s Cross. I’m looking at Regent’s Canal. It’s a great location. And [...]

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Lean, Six Sigma and Project Management together

April 28, 2010

I attended my first PMI UK Chapter meeting recently and the topic was Lean Six Sigma and Project Management: A Marriage Made in Heaven? I’m not sure what marriage had to do with it, but the presenter, Ishai Perelman, PMP, Master Black Belt and a senior managing consultant with Pcubed, certainly pointed out the links [...]

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A new way to think about RACI

March 17, 2010

Do you use the RACI model to help with stakeholder management? RACI is a way of categorising stakeholders to help define their roles and responsibilities, and it is also useful for communications plans.  The most common way to see RACI used is in tabular form – with the letters across the top and the list [...]

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Fixed date projects: more advice from the experts

February 17, 2010

Last week we saw that PRINCE2 doesn’t really have much advice to offer the project manager stuck with delivering to a fixed date.  I also gave you some advice from another expert, J LeRoy Ward at ESI.  Surely some other project management experts have tackled this problem?  I trawled my bookcase for what other people [...]

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Project Management: the next 10 years

January 25, 2010

The CBI launched a report at the end of last year forecasting the future of the UK business arena for the next ten years.  What does that mean for project management?  I read The Shape of Business – The Next 10 Years and decided to map my predictions for the future of project management based [...]

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BAs and PMs working together (part 1)

November 16, 2009

About a month ago I spoke at the Business Analysis Conference about how project managers work, and how business analysts and project managers can work together more successfully.  As you can imagine, telling a room full of BAs that project managers don’t want to hear all that detail and analysis paralysis was received with a [...]

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Methodologies matter: PRINCE2

October 5, 2009

Last month I was interviewed by Diego Nei, for the Brazilian blog, Papo GP (Talking PM – I think I’ve got that right).  We were talking about PRINCE2, what it means to get qualified and how it compares to PMBoK.  If you’re up for it, you can read the interview in Portuguese, but Diego has [...]

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