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PM skills

Recovering troubled programmes (part 2)

July 6, 2009

Are you seeing any of the problems faced by troubled programmes that I talked about last week?  If so, you need a recovery plan to get your programme back on track. Here’s the 5 step ESI process for getting out of trouble.  The whole approach assumes you have been parachuted in to fix someone else’s [...]

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Recovering troubled programmes (part 1)

June 29, 2009

There’s only one thing worse than being told bad news, and that is being told about bad news late.  When a programme is failing, you should define the problem and potential solutions, and alert stakeholders at the first sign of trouble, according to LeRoy Ward, Executive VP at ESI. I attended ‘Managing and Saving Programmes [...]

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Keeping up to date: the value of training

June 24, 2009
This entry is part 7 of 13 in the series Office Goddess

This month in the Office Goddess series, I’m talking about training. I meet a lot of dynamic, switched on women doing what I do. After all, most people who attend conferences and networking events, or who get in touch with me through this blog, are people who are already aware that it takes a bit [...]

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Managing programmes in a changing world

June 22, 2009

I joined in with Managing and Saving Programmes in a Changing World, an audio/Webex conference with LeRoy Ward, Executive VP at ESI, recently. I couldn’t see who else was on the call (apart from the presenters) and I joined a bit late, so I felt sorry for them that they had started the presentation with [...]

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Earned Value Analysis: the conference

June 1, 2009

Ah, Earned Value Analysis.  If only I loved it enough to attend this 2-day conference about it next week.  Or cared enough about it.  Or even understood why the majority of PMs I know don’t bother with it at all. Still, if you are an EV aficionado, EVA14 is for you.  According to the organisers, [...]

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Interview with the Project Shrink

May 11, 2009
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New version of SFIA launched

January 26, 2009

Here’s another acronym for you: SFIA.  It’s ‘Skills Framework for the Information Age’ and is owned and maintained by The SFIA Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation. Essentially SFIA (say: Sophia) is a list of the skills required of people in IT and related jobs.  It’s been around over 20 years in various forms although project management [...]

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In the know: managing project assumptions

January 21, 2009

Need some help managing assumptions on your project?  Assumptions assist with risk management and planning, although you do need to keep on top of them.  I’ve just written a basic guide to project assumptions at PM Majik, so check it out!

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Why projects fail: the presentation

August 18, 2008

Last month I gave a presentation at the Nottingham and Derby branch of the British Computer Society about why projects fail – which, as regular readers will know, is a subject close to my heart. It was a pretty good evening: lots of people turned out, including some of the BCS Women group and some [...]

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Training your project sponsor

August 4, 2008

Unfortunately you might not be able to choose someone as your project sponsor who meets all the criteria of a good project sponsor – that is, if you have the luxury of being able to choose at all. Most likely you’ll just get lumped with someone and you’ll have to do your best to work [...]

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