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Building a project management career: interview with Helen Hitchmough
Earlier this month we celebrated International Project Management Day and one of the themes this year was women in project management. I wanted to get someone else’s view on being a woman in project management so I spoke to Helen Hitchmough, a senior project manager at project management consultancy firm Acando, about her project management…
How men and women manage risk differently
International Project Management Day in 2012 took as one of its themes the role of women in project management. At the time, I spoke to Angela Minzoni Alessio, PhD, an industrial and business anthropologist from the Ecole Centrale in Paris, about how men and women approach project risk differently. Angela, you’ve spent a lot of…
International Project Management Day celebrates women in project management
This year, the 9th International Project Management Day has taken ‘women and children’ as its theme. There is something to be said for the role of project management in education, and I’ve written before about the good work that various groups are doing to encourage project management skills in schools. Equality in project management –…
And the winner is… UK Agile Awards 2012 winners
I attended the UK Agile Awards on Thursday night, which was a good evening. Master of Ceremonies comedian Steve Punt cracked an Agile joke during the first few minutes which went down well. There were 8 awards, and the winners were: Most Valuable Agile Innovation of 2012 Won by The 10 Second Build. This award…
Gamification in project management
Last year, it was all about social media. This year’s hot new trend is gamification. What’s that, I hear you ask? It’s such a new word that my spellchecker flags it up as an error. Gamification has been around for a while. It’s the art of making work seem less like, well, work. It’s about…
What is customer-centric project management?
This is an edited extract from my book Customer-Centric Project Management, co-authored with Phil Peplow (Routledge, 2012). Let’s get some basics established. Projects must deliver value. Projects must involve stakeholders, even if that stakeholder population is made up of only one person. These two things are the premise for customer-centric project management. The third premise…
An introduction to communications plans
Does your project have a communications plan? It’s often something that less experienced project managers forget to do, although even experienced project managers can find themselves half way through a project without a clear communications approach. The purpose of a communications plan is to define all the people or groups who have an interest in…
Software review: Project Portfolio Office
General information Name: Project Portfolio Office Vendor: Project Portfolio Office Hosting options: Web hosted only Cost and plans: Up to 10 users for $49 (£32) a month. Free trial. Languages: English Currency: Feature to add your own currency symbol Basic features: building projects I found it practically impossible to get in to the software once…
Software Review: Celoxis
General information Name: Celoxis Vendor: Celoxis Technologies Hosting options: There is a web hosted version and a version you can host yourself Cost and plans: Web-hosted version is $14.95 per user per month. An on-premise licence is $299 plus $180 per user (one-off fee). Free 30-day trial. Languages: English Currency: Feature to add your own…
Process-Driven Project Management: Minimizing the inherent risks within projects
This is a guest post by Neil Stolovitsky, Senior Solution Specialist at Genius. Although the fundamentals of project management are applicable across all types of project environments, the areas of emphasis can vary depending on the nature of the project you are running. Working for a PPM software vendor (Genius Inside) has its advantages in…
BYOD: the new trend
Do you use your own iPad or phone at work? If so, you are part of the growing trend of people who BYOD. That’s Bring Your Own Device – and it’s a trend that is affecting all industries. The problem is that corporate budgets can’t keep up with the shifts in technology. We issue everyone…