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Presents for project managers

December 10, 2007

Looking for a present for the PM in your life? She might appreciate some of these gifts: Vouchers for Starbucks or her local coffee shop – for keeping going when steering group reports are due A subscription to Shattered A retractable powder brush, so the inside of her handbag doesn’t get messy, and a fix-all-hide-all [...]

Advice from the Fiddler on the Project

December 3, 2007

I listened to Rich Maltzman talking about his forthcoming book Fiddler on the Project (co-authored with Ranjit Biswas) on Controlling Chaos, way back in July. We’ve been corresponding since, trying to find time to talk about project management and authoring. I finally got round to asking him some questions last week, and from the sounds [...]

Networking for networkers

November 29, 2007

Denise Best from Oxford University’s Careers Service has written an interesting article on networking, pitched at IT students, but for beginner networkers like me, I need all the advice I can get – even the basic stuff!

Carnival of project management #15

November 25, 2007

Welcome to the November 26, 2007 edition of carnival of project management. Pawel Brodzinski presents All Flavors of Project Management posted at Software Project Management, saying, “Several types of project management seen everyday. Don’t try that at home.” Raj Sheelvant presents Enterprise Application Implementation Strategy posted at IT Strategy, saying, “Enterprise Application Project Implementation is [...]

Networking (part 2)

November 19, 2007

The other event I attended recently was hosted by the British Computer Society’s North London branch. ‘ITIL deliver – can you manage IT?’ was held at the Learning Tree International offices near Euston Station. My experiences of Learning Tree are pretty limited: they sent me an annoying amount of catalogues for their training courses until [...]

A question of shopping

November 15, 2007

There were plenty of questions about project management at last week’s womenintechnology event on how to be a successful woman in IT. Mainly people were interested in how to break into project management. I’ve written an article on this topic over at Projects@Work, if you’d like my take on what you need to do to [...]

Networking (part 1)

November 12, 2007

I’m not that good at networking at conferences and seminars. You know, standing around making small talk with people you are unlikely to meet ever again, on the off-chance that you might have enough in common to sustain a conversation until your glass is empty and you have an excuse to move on. You can’t [...]

Carnival of project management #15

November 11, 2007

The next carnival of project management will be on 26 November. Deadline for submission of articles is the Friday before. Please don’t submit general business articles, pieces about how to write business plans and make loads of money for your small business, or articles you have just ripped off from someone else’s site and are [...]

Everyone’s talking about it…

November 8, 2007

Although my series on failing projects has come to an end (missed it? click on Failing Projects in the categories list), it seems like everywhere I look someone is talking about pear-shaped projects. Luke Barrett, a senior business analyst from software company Thoughtworks, has been writing about how to stop software projects going wrong. Luke’s [...]

A weekend off

November 5, 2007

I went to Malta for the weekend recently, as a break from a fortnight of deadlines, status reports and long hours that had drained my batteries. There was one street that didn’t let me forget where I had come from: each terraced house was named for a city. Mostly though, I tried to leave work [...]

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