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Gadget etiquette

May 27, 2009

This entry is part 5 of 13 in the series Office Goddess

This month in the Office Goddess series, I want to look at using your gadgets at work. You love your laptop, right? It goes where you go and it’s oh so handy for meetings. Well, personally I’m a pen and paper girl but if it’s really important and will make things easier I will tote [...]

New stats on women in IT make old news

April 6, 2009

You would have thought that with the research on pay gaps and the Exemplar Employer report we would be past discussing whether women get a fair deal at work and would have moved on to what people are actually going to do about it. BCS, e-skills UK and Intellect, in association with the Department for [...]

For Ada: an interview with Sophie Kain (part two)

March 24, 2009

This is part two of my interview with Sophie Kain, director of Prior Kain Ltd, in honour of Ada Lovelace Day. Missed the first bit? Find it here. One of the biggest issues for programme managers (well, for me) is the transient nature of a team over the lifecycle of work, especially when a programme [...]

For Ada: an interview with Sophie Kain (part 1)

March 24, 2009

It’s Ada Lovelace Day, and in honour of the great woman here is an interview with a modern great woman in technology, Dr Sophie Kain. My conversation with Sophie went on a bit, so I’ve split it into two pieces: one for you to read with morning coffee and one for afternoon tea. Sophie is [...]

Review: ConceptDraw PRO

March 9, 2009

Over the last fortnight I have reviewed ConceptDraw PROJECT and MINDMAP. The third and final piece in the ConceptDraw Office suite is ConceptDraw PRO. This, according to the vendor, “is a powerful diagramming and drawing tool that enables users to effectively visualize and communicate information and processes.” It’s a fancy drawing package, a bit like [...]

Review: ConceptDraw Project

March 2, 2009

ConceptDraw PROJECT is the second piece in the ConceptDraw Office suite. Last week I reviewed MINDMAP. I reviewed version 3 of ConceptDraw PROJECT back in 2007, so now they are on version 5 I was interested to see what had been improved. The interface is attractive and easy to use. Hitting Return puts a new [...]

LiquidPlanner 2.0: Scheduling + ‘Twitter’

February 24, 2009

“Every day is pancake day,” says Charles Seybold, co-founder and CEO of LiquidPlanner. “Any excuse.” It’s Shrove Tuesday, traditional day for pancakes, and I haven’t had any. What I have had is a look at the new version of LiquidPlanner that was released yesterday. The main differences since I last looked at it in May [...]

Review: ConceptDraw MINDMAP

February 23, 2009

ConceptDraw Office is an entire software suite designed around the project management lifecycle. The first piece in the suite is ConceptDraw MINDMAP, which is “a business and personal productivity tool that collects ideas and organizes them into a visual map.” It’s a tool for on-screen brainstorming. I’ve never used mind mapping software before, being more [...]

Blogging your job

January 28, 2009

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 [...]

Book review: How to do Systems Analysis

January 12, 2009

The strapline on the back of this book is ‘becoming a systems thinker’. The authors have taken a practical approach to systems analysis describing the fundamentals of systemic thinking including problem definition and problem solving. How to do Systems Analysis covers the six main phases of systems analysis: determining system goals, establishing a process and [...]

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