The last time I met Melanie Franklin I don’t think I made a particularly good impression – I told her I mainly wrote about handbags* and I expect I came off as rather flippant. So it was with slight trepidation that I sat in the offices of Maven Training after work waiting to interview her…
Earlier in the month I attended a womenintechnology event about the business value of social media – something I’m particularly interested in, given the topic of my forthcoming book. The evening was held at the Intellect offices on Russell Square, and the room was packed. It was a pretty small room, in comparison to some…
Last time we saw that PRINCE2 doesn’t really have much advice to offer the project manager stuck with delivering to a fixed date. I also gave you some advice from another expert, J LeRoy Ward at ESI. Surely some other project management experts have tackled this problem? I trawled my bookcase for what other people…
Today, Andrew Filev, who writes the fab Project Management 2.0 blog, and I are swapping posts. We agreed on the loose topic of social media and project management. Andrew has a great deal of knowledge on enterprise 2.0 and social media, so I’m glad to have him as a guest author today. You can read…
There has been a lot in the news recently about the gender pay gap, but unfortunately it has all been pretty descriptive: shock horror, women are paid less than men. As if we didn’t know that already. The Equality Bill had its second reading in the Lords last month and consultation on the guidance starts…
Several people have asked me what goes on at the PMI New Media Council meetings. The NMC was launched in 2008 and is a group of bloggers, podcasters and other online folk whom PMI describe as ‘influential voices’. We have come together to act as an advisory and sounding board for PMI. We’re not paid…
Last month I looked at the new features in Genius Project. I wanted to find out more about how the software works with Microsoft Project, so I spoke to Christophe Borlat, General Manager of Genius Inside. There are lots of project management tools out there today doing interesting things, what makes Genius Project different? Genius…
In this final instalment of the ‘working together’ series, I’ll be looking at how to improve the working relationships between project managers and business analysts. Changing working relationships is often more about culture than concrete tasks, but there are some things you can do to smooth any blips in the way that project managers and…
Last week I wrote about what project managers value when working with business analysts. This week I want to focus on what we don’t. Don’t worry: it’s not that bad! The differences in the ways that project managers work and the ways that business analysts work means that it’s not always easy to work together….
The lovely people at Computer Weekly announced the winners of the IT Blog Awards last night ( 25 November, 2009) at a presentation at Shoreditch House. And I’m really pleased to say that – thanks to you all – I won the Project Management category! I was also the runner up in the IT Professional…
Last week I wrote about the way that project managers work, and how this relates to OTOBOS. This week I want to explain what project managers value in our working relationships with business analysts. Project managers see BAs as architects. They are detailed, they decide on and build solutions, they work in a methodical way….
About a month ago I spoke at the IRM UK Business Analysis Conference 2009 about how project managers work, and how business analysts and project managers can work together more successfully. As you can imagine, telling a room full of BAs that project managers don’t want to hear all that detail and analysis paralysis was…