Save Time: Tidy Your Desk!
10 Easy tips for keeping your workplace tidy and making you more productive. Put these into practice and you’ll soon be saving time each day and feel more positive about your space.
Author: Elizabeth Harrin
Elizabeth Harrin is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management in the UK. She holds degrees from the University of York and Roehampton University, and several project management certifications including APM PMQ. She first took her PRINCE2 Practitioner exam in 2004 and has worked extensively in project delivery for over 20 years.
Elizabeth is also the founder of the Project Management Rebels community, a mentoring group for professionals. She's written several books for project managers including Managing Multiple Projects.
Review: Projecturf
Today I’ve been oven drying some of my huge haul of cherry tomatoes, so that I can store them in olive oil and keep them a bit longer. Honestly, I am fed up with fresh tomato salads, and there are still lots to pick, if they ever turn red. Otherwise I will be getting out…
Review: Severa 3
Why is registering for anything so complicated? The ‘State’ field is not marked as compulsory when signing up for an account with Severa. Except my registration would not be accepted without one. So it is compulsory, then. Having said that there is no validation, as I just typed ‘State’ and I was in. The sign…
TrackerSuite.Net: now with widgets
With all the modern technology available to these companies you would have thought they would have come up with a way to show me software without making me call the US for 46 minutes. I wouldn’t have minded so much if it wasn’t for the fact I could have got a good overview of the…
LiquidPlanner: now with tailored views
“I lay a lot of blame on the tools,” says Charles Seybold, when he talks about why projects fail. The CEO of LiquidPlanner believes Microsoft Project is too complex and it’s too easy to lose sight of what is going on – and then you sum up all the mess with a percent complete. “How…
Equality for women at work – or not?
Oh dear. The Equality Bill is making it’s way through Parliament and will become law in the autumn next year. I’ve been following its progress because it includes a controversial clause that makes positive discrimination lawful. As I’ve said before positive discrimination does nothing to support women in the workplace. The consultation for the bill…
Managing programs in a changing world
I joined in with Managing and Saving Programs in a Changing World, an audio/Webex conference with LeRoy Ward, Executive VP at ESI, recently. It wasn’t radical – the ESI approach to managing programs in a changing world is obviously to be great at the basics – but it was a good revision session and a…
Gadget etiquette
You love your laptop, right? It goes where you go and it’s oh so handy for meetings. Well, personally I’m a pen and paper girl but if it’s really important and will make things easier I will tote around my laptop and use it in meetings. Not using it for every meeting makes me acutely…
The Lovelace Lecture
“This lecture pays due tribute to a lot of our computing heritage,” says Alan Pollard, BCS President in full regalia with a presidential medal around his neck. I take my seat in the conference room of The Wellcome Trust. It’s a beautiful space. One of the best things about attending events is getting to nose…
What are you worth?
Apparently the average salary for a programme manager is £70,196, down from £72,510 this time last year, according to G2, an IT specific recruitment agency. The range of programme manager salaries is actually much narrower than I was expecting, with the average minimum being £65,513 (last year – £66,711) and maximum being £74,990 (last year…
The 80/20 rule
Today I want to look at the Pareto principle, otherwise known as the 80/20 rule. As an Office Goddess, you make everything you do look effortless, although afterwards you can explain just how complex it was. No whinging while doing the task, mind. There’s no real secret to getting everything done – it’s just a…
New stats on women in IT make old news
You would have thought that with the research on pay gaps and the Exemplar Employer report we would be past discussing whether women get a fair deal at work and would have moved on to what people are actually going to do about it. BCS, e-skills UK and Intellect, in association with the Department for…