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Women

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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SharePoint for Project Management: A case study

May 2, 2011

Two weeks ago I told you about my trip to Paris to speak at PMI’s Ile de France chapter. The other speaker that evening was Christophe Campana, one of the founders of consulting company Campana & Schott. He told me how his company was changing its recruitment adverts in an effort to attract more female [...]

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Research shows female project managers earn less (but we might get more maternity pay)

March 14, 2011

The Arras People 2011 Benchmark Report is out – and this year the study shows some interesting facts about pay. Pay for female project professionals peaks at the £30k to £40k salary band.  Salaries for women over £65k are rare, and only 15% of women earn over £50k. Male salaries plateau between £30k and £50k [...]

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Women manage the cheap, small projects: new research on International Women’s Day

March 8, 2011

2011 marks the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day.  Today, people all over the world are celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.  And they are also eating pancakes, as this year IWD falls on the same day as Shrove Tuesday. Women have an important part to play in [...]

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Why are people leaving project management?

December 6, 2010

Nada Abandah commented on Twitter recently that she knew people who were leaving project management jobs.  When I asked her why, she said they felt under-paid, under-appreciated and were fed up of being blamed for project failure. Leaving project management isn’t always bad.  I spoke to an ex-project manager, Ruth Malone, about why she left [...]

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Can you wait 58 years to earn the same as your male colleagues?

September 30, 2010

Just as Sarah Brown is launching her new initiative, Women: Inspiration and Enterprise, we get news of more evidence of discrepancies in women’s pay. The good news is that according to CMI research, this year our salaries rose by 2.8% compared to 2.3% for men.  The bad news is that we are still way behind [...]

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Book Review: Why Women Mean Business

August 25, 2010
Why Women Mean Business cover

The Summer of Books 2010 continues with this review of Why Women Mean Business. There’s a skills shortage.  If you haven’t noticed it yet you will do when the baby boom generation starts to retire.  There just aren’t enough people entering the workforce to keep up with demand, and meet the needs of my generation’s [...]

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Event: Social Media for Project Managers

May 31, 2010

I’ll be presenting to the APM’s Women in Project Management SIG on 10 June, and you are invited. We’ll be talking about how project managers can use social media.  I’ll be presenting this: There’s a revolution happening in project management: social media tools are finding their way from branding and marketing to the hub of [...]

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