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10 Inspirational Women in Project Management

March 8, 2012

Last year at the PMI Global Congress in Dallas, Peter Taylor gave a presentation celebrating project management. He counterbalanced statistics showing many projects by saying that we should be proud of the great work we do as project managers. Peter listed some project managers as examples of our successes. Frank Saladis, Harold Kerzner, Cornelius Fichtner, [...]

5 Tips for Managing Information Overload

March 7, 2012

Emails, phone calls, status alerts, updates. We are constantly interrupted at work. At the Pink Elephant ITSM conference last month Dr Joanne Cantor talked about how to manage the bombardment of bleeps and pings that demand our attention. Here are 5 of her tips for managing information overload. 1. Have a list of ‘drop everything’ [...]

3 Steps to Presence: Book Review of The Power of Presence

March 5, 2012

Presence. It’s that thing all successful project and programme managers have. It’s when you walk into a room and the team subtly acknowledges you’ve arrived. You see it when the project team listen to a good project sponsor talking about the project’s objectives, or when a portfolio manager discusses the business benefits that will be [...]

Why is it a project manager’s job to fix companies?

February 29, 2012

Projects are the future, a good portfolio office can influence and shape strategy and project management is the only way to holistically deliver improvements. If you have sat through any project management conference presentations or talked to someone evangelising about the role of the PMO then you will have heard this stuff before. At the [...]

Talking Project Politics: Interview with Nita Martin

February 27, 2012

Politics. Every project has politics. Today I’m interviewing Dr Nita Martin, Managing Director of Pure Indigo. Nita’s book, Project Politics: A Systematic Approach to Managing Complex Relationships, deals with that difficult subject of how things get done on projects. Nita, ‘politics’ means different things to different people. How do you define project politics? ‘Project politics’ [...]

Video Diary: Pink Elephant ITSM Conference Day 3

February 23, 2012

This is the video from the Tuesday at the Pink Elephant ITSM Conference in Las Vegas. The video is about 6 minutes long and includes industrial psychologist Bernado Tirado from The Project Box talking about his top tip for finding a powerful position in the room. It also includes a short piece of the presentation [...]

Video Diary: Pink Elephant ITSM Conference, Las Vegas, Day 2

February 23, 2012

This is the video diary from the first proper day of the Pink Elephant conference. The video is about 3 minutes long. Watch the video from Day 1 here. Watch the video from Day 3 here. Thanks to Pink Elephant, who part-funded my trip and conference fees.

Video Diary: Pink Elephant ITSM Conference, Las Vegas, Day 1

February 22, 2012

This is the video diary from Saturday and Sunday at the Pink Elephant ITSM Conference in Las Vegas. Thanks to Thomas from the Manta Group from taking part in the video. Watch the video from Day 2 here. Watch the video from Day 3 here. Thanks to Pink Elephant, who part-funded my trip and conference [...]

Seven Stupid Mistakes Managers Make (and What to Do Instead)

February 20, 2012

This is a guest post by Darryl Rosen, author of Table for Three? Bringing Your Smart Phone to Lunch and 50 Dumb Mistakes Smart Managers Don’t Make! You’re a manager and you glance down at an incoming text while an employee is talking to you. DUMB! Or you bark “Just get it done!” to your [...]

Meet Laurel: A Very PMP Wedding

February 17, 2012

I have confessed before to planning my own wedding in Microsoft Project. I also interviewed a wedding planner for my first book, Project Management in the Real World, about fixed date projects. After all, a wedding is a project with an immovable end date. So I was delighted to discover a blog that blends project [...]

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