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A shopping guide for a project management Christmas

December 9, 2011

How are you doing with your Christmas shopping? If your Christmas project planning has gone a bit awry and you still have gifts to buy, here is my list of what to get the project managers in your life. Or you could suggest that people buy these things for you! Anyone who saw me at [...]

What is Imposter Syndrome?

November 28, 2011

This is an extract from Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Ten Strategies to Stop Feeling Like a Fraud at Work. This new ebook launches next week and I thought you might like a sneak preview! When Pauline Clance was in graduate school, she was constantly worrying that she wasn’t good enough. She didn’t think her performance in [...]

What can we do to encourage women into IT project management?

November 11, 2011

Last week, the BCS’s Project Eye blogged about the low numbers of women entering science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) to pursue careers. Project and programme management is still required in this fields – so given that women choose project management as a career, why aren’t they choosing it in STEM areas? I’ve teamed up [...]

Do Women Make The Best Project Managers?

September 2, 2011

This is a guest post by Michelle Symonds, on behalf of Parallel Project Training. Clearly, men and women are different and deal with situations differently in the workplace. The skills that they naturally excel at rarely coincide and it is the innate talents of women that help to make them better project [...]

Research shows women don’t want management jobs

July 27, 2011

Intellect’s Women in IT Forum and womenintechnology.co.uk recently released the results of their survey about women working in the technology profession. The survey shows that although 8% of women have reached director-level roles, up 3% on 2007, many women are not interested in pursuing pure management roles and want to remain doing hands on, technical jobs. [...]

How to Manage in a Matrix Structure Part 2: Dealing with the Challenges

July 4, 2011

In my last post about project management in a matrix structure I shared 4 challenges of that environment. This week I want to talk about how we can overcome these. This was a topic that Shilpa Arora, PMP, spoke about at a recent Women in Technology event. The 4 challenges she discussed were: Lack of [...]

How to Manage in a Matrix Structure Part 1: Understanding the Matrix

June 27, 2011

Most projects operate in some kind of matrixed environment. Project managers rarely have direct line management responsibility for all, if any, of the people on the project team. So how can we best get things done when we don’t control the team? In this article, I’ll explain what matrix management is and why it creates [...]

Secret projects and wonderful women: Bletchley Park

June 8, 2011

Imagine working in a company with 10,000 people. You’re working on a secret project. You don’t know your colleagues from the next room. You don’t know what the overall project objectives are. You don’t know who else is on the project team and you can’t tell anyone what you’re working on. All you know is [...]

Project management in schools: two case studies

June 6, 2011

Last week I wrote about what the PMI Educational Foundation does. One of the missions of PMIEF is to build project management skills in young people and teachers, better equipping students for the future. How exactly does it do that? At PMI’s EMEA Leadership Institute Meeting in Dublin last month two volunteers spoke about their [...]

Managing up: how to help your managers help you

May 25, 2011

One of the questions I’m often asked is: “How do I get taken seriously at work?” And over my career I have asked myself that question as well. One way to build credibility in the workplace was explained by Dr Lynda Bourne recently at the PMI Global Congress EMEA in Dublin. Let’s talk about managing [...]

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