http://www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com Project Management musings for one and all Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:45:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Do you use the RACI model to help with stakeholder management? RACI is a way of categorising stakeholders to help define their roles and responsibilities, and it is also useful for communications plans.  The most common way to see RACI used is in tabular form - with the letters across the ... http://www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com/2010/03/a-new-way-to-think-about-raci/ Here’s a round-up of the latest happenings in the project management arena. The Turing Lecture I attended the 2010 Turing Lecture last month.  Professor Chris Bishop, Chief Research Scientist at Microsoft’s research lab in Cambridge, discussed the field of machine learning.  He talked about how uncertainty can be modeled and quantified using ... http://www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com/2010/03/pm-news-round-up-2/ Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway to win licences for the beta test version of Richard Revis' fixed date planning tool, The Plan Is.  The lucky winners should have received their email invite to join the beta test now, so have fun playing with the software and I hope ... http://www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com/2010/03/the-plan-is-winners/ The career path for a project manager is pretty straightforward.  Start on project support and small projects, manage bigger and bigger projects, then become a programme manager.  Some people would argue that programme management and project management are different skill sets and programme management is not necessarily the natural progression.  ... http://www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com/2010/03/going-up-taking-a-sideways-step-in-the-job-market/ And my favourite submission this month is from Lindsay Scott who sent in Does Programme & Project Management have a “Long Hours” Culture? posted at How to Manage a Camel - Project Management and Recruitment. How can you not love a blog with such a great name? A close second ... http://www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com/2010/03/carnival-of-project-management-31/