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First Secondary School in UK to trial project management skills in the classroom (video)

March 6, 2013

This video shows the follow up for a project I first heard about at Synergy 2011: using project management techniques in UK schools to equip young people for school projects and also their future working lives. This video shows the end of that particular initiative and what happened at the school after the project management [...]

Behind the scenes at PMI: Interview with Brian Weiss

January 28, 2013

I didn’t have the opportunity to meet Brian Weiss, VP of Practitioner Markets for PMI, at Synergy last year because Hurricane Sandy stopped him from making it to London. However, since then I have had the chance to catch up with Brian and find out more about his role at PMI. Here’s what he had [...]

PMI Synergy Conference: video diary

November 16, 2012

Here is my video diary of my day at the PMI Synergy event for International Project Management Day. In it you’ll see Lord Digby Jones, Dame Tessa Jowell, Thomas Juli and some other footage from the day to give you an idea of what the conference was like. This video is approximately 7m37s long.

Building the Olympic Park: a PM success story

July 18, 2012

Louise Hardy, infrastructure manager for the construction work for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games, gave a presentation at a PMI event about the project work involved in preparing for London 2012. She said she had been involved in the programme for five and a half years and that as part of the delivery partner [...]

PM News Round-up for April

April 25, 2012

Now the beginning of the year slump is out the way and it’s properly Spring, the project management world is buzzing with news. Here’s a summary of what I have found interesting this month. APM conference speakers focus on the Olympics APM have announced another senior speaker in the Olympic learning legacy stream at the [...]

How do you deal with a bad day?

January 23, 2012

In this video I ask 9 project managers how they deal with a bad day at work. With thanks to Todd, Samad, Nathaniel, Cindy, Adrienne, Cornelius, Taryn, Dave and Melanie. Filmed on location at PMI Global Congress North America 2011 in Dallas/Fort Worth.

The PMI Leadership Institute Meeting and Global Congress North America Roundup

November 25, 2011

There was a lot of online activity at this year’s PMI Leadership Institute Meeting and Global Congress this year, more than I’ve seen before. Here’s my round up of the best articles and commentary about the events. Blog posts Michael Moss writes about Congress Day 2, including the key note speakers and the contest to [...]

Attracting young people to PM: interview with Chris Field

November 2, 2011

Tomorrow is International Project Management Day, and the UK’s big event to celebrate is Synergy. Over 1000 project managers are due to converge on the O2 arena in London. I spoke to Chris Field, who is the UK PMI Chapter President and one of the organisers. When there is so much doom and gloom, and [...]

Introducing…the Cleland PM Literature Award winners

October 28, 2011

A Girl’s Guide to Project Management celebrates project management literature and writing in all forms. You’ll find project management book reviews, interviews with authors (like this one, and this one) and project management writing is what my company does. So it was a great honour to be invited to join the winners of the PMI [...]

Video Diary: PMI Global Congress North America, 25 October 2011

October 26, 2011

This episode of my video diary from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, covers my final day at PMI’s Global Congress North America. Thanks to Taryn, Jeff, Satish, Cassandra, Melanie and Adrienne for taking part in this video, and thanks to PMI for waiving my Congress entrance fee to enable me to attend. You can see the videos [...]

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