“Good morning, Elizabeth,” says the man at the coffee stand. “The usual?” “Yes, please.” I fiddle with my purse to get the correct change. “Sorry, I don’t have enough money,” I say. “I’ll just go to the cash machine.” I leave the counter and cross the street to the nearest cash point. When I get…
This week on the Maximizing IS/IT Team Effectiveness course I am taking with Villanova University the focus has been on communication. We’ve looked at effective strategies for one-on-one spoken conversations with people, including how to determine the preferences of the person you are speaking to. About two thirds of people prefer to take in information…
This video discusses the course text book I’m using for my Maximizing IT/IS Team Effectiveness studies. For those of you who would prefer to read the transcript, it’s below. This is the course book that I’m using for the Maximizing IT/IS Team Effectiveness course that I’m taking with Villanova University at the moment. It’s called…
Last week, I started the Maximizing IS/IT Team Effectiveness course with Villanova University. The online course has a weekly live session, but it’s held in the middle of my night, so I’m not able to attend. The sessions are recorded, so this week I listened to the transcript of the first chat. It was a…
In February 2011 I fell off the stage while giving a presentation. I was talking about using social media on projects to PMI’s UK Chapter, giving The Presentation With The Mixed Feedback that I also delivered at the PMI Global Congress in Washington the year before. The event was hosted in the wonderful Thomson Reuters…
I’m taking a course with Villanova University called Maximising IS/IT Team Effectiveness. This is Week 1, and already I’m overwhelmed. The first time I log in, there are already messages on the message board, documents to download and entries on the class roster. I can’t make the video lectures work despite reading the help files…
This is a guest post by Rick Graham, an instructor with ESI International. During the late 1910s and early 1920s, the Ford Motor Corporation constructed the world’s largest industrial complex along the banks of the Rouge River in Dearborn, Michigan. Henry Ford’s vision of mass production included not only the first production lines, but also…
“What about Facebook for project managers?” is a question I’m asked a lot when I talk to people about social media tools for project managers. As you know, I’m a big believer in the benefits that social media tools can offer project managers. But when I’m asked about Facebook I always say that I don’t…
General information Name: AceProject Vendor: Websystems, Inc. Hosting options: There is a web hosted version and a version you can host yourself Cost and plans: Free for basic accounts with 5 users and 5 projects. This only gives you 50 tasks which doesn’t seem very much at all to me. There is a sliding scale…
How do you keep the production of a film on time, on budget and on scope? In this video I discuss these issues with short film producer, Michael Savva. Elizabeth Harrin: Well, hello! I’m Elizabeth Harrin from A Girl’s Guide to Project Management and I’m here today with short film festival finalist, Michael Savva. And…
APM has been campaigning for Chartered Project Professional status for some time. It hasn’t happened yet, and they have now brought out Registered Project Professional status. I think this is a watered-down version of being Chartered, and it might reflect their frustration at the Chartered process taking so long. APM Registered Project Professional (RPP) is…
“I left school with minimal qualifications,” said Roger Clutton, Programme Director at Lloyd’s Register Group Services Ltd. “I was probably programmed to feel not good at things.” Clutton is the self-confessed project manager for “horrible projects” at the risk management organisation which provides risk assessment and risk mitigation solutions across the UK. Lloyd’s started out…