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Holidays!

December 21, 2011

I’m taking a two-week break over Christmas to enjoy the holidays. A Girl’s Guide to Project Management returns on 4 January, 2012. In the meantime, I thought this video would cheer up the gloomy December days – Gina Schreck showed it at her presentation at the PMI Leadership Institute Meeting earlier this year. Enjoy!

The PMI Leadership Institute Meeting and Global Congress North America Roundup

November 25, 2011

There was a lot of online activity at this year’s PMI Leadership Institute Meeting and Global Congress this year, more than I’ve seen before. Here’s my round up of the best articles and commentary about the events. Blog posts Michael Moss writes about Congress Day 2, including the key note speakers and the contest to [...]

Introducing…the Cleland PM Literature Award winners

October 28, 2011

A Girl’s Guide to Project Management celebrates project management literature and writing in all forms. You’ll find project management book reviews, interviews with authors (like this one, and this one) and project management writing is what my company does. So it was a great honour to be invited to join the winners of the PMI [...]

Video Diary: PMI Global Congress North America, 25 October 2011

October 26, 2011

This episode of my video diary from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, covers my final day at PMI’s Global Congress North America. Thanks to Taryn, Jeff, Satish, Cassandra, Melanie and Adrienne for taking part in this video, and thanks to PMI for waiving my Congress entrance fee to enable me to attend. You can see the videos [...]

Video Diary: PMI Global Congress North America, 24 October 2011

October 25, 2011

This episode of my video diary from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, covers Day 2 of PMI’s Global Congress North America. Thanks to Kashif (who is quoted talking about one of his projects here), Evelyn and Joe for taking part in this video. The animal quiz formed part of the keynote presentation by Stefan Swanepoel. You [...]

Video Diary: PMI Global Congress North America, 23 October 2011

October 24, 2011

This episode of my video diary from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, covers Day 1 of PMI’s Global Congress North America. Thanks to Brenda for taking part in this video. The speaker whose name she can’t remember is John Furlong, CEO of the Vancouver Organizing Committee, who spearheaded the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Disclosure: PMI [...]

Video Diary: PMI LIM, 22 October 2011

October 24, 2011

Thanks to Chris, Samad and Jennifer for contributing to this video about the final day of the PMI Leadership Institute Meeting and awards ceremony. You can watch what happened at my first day at the LIM here. Disclosure: PMI waived my entrance fee to the LIM – thanks, guys!

In Memoriam: Eric Jenett, PMI Founder

October 23, 2011

Eric Jenett, founder member of PMI and PMI Fellow, died yesterday aged 88. Mr Jenett was the very first person to become a PMP. He received a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University and then spent much of his career with Brown and Root in Houston, Texas. He was also a founding member [...]

Why use Kanban?

November 15, 2010

In this video I ask Josh Nankivel from pmStudent.com why he has chosen to use Kanban for managing the tasks for his project team. A transcript of this video is below. Elizabeth Harrin: Hello! My name is Elizabeth Harrin from the blog “A Girl’s Guide to Project Management” and I’m here today with a fellow [...]

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