This is a guest post by Lee Carnihan. After more than ten years working in digital I’ve met a dozen or so female project managers but only two female web developers. Yes, two. I can still remember their names. Laura and Tanya. My anecdotal experience, sadly, seems to confirm the statistical reality that women in…
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I can do my project communications work for The Otobos Group from anywhere but when I work for my employer I sometimes need to travel. Nap time is about 9am and it feels weird to be north of Coventry before my son is due for a sleep. We don’t often have meetings in Birmingham and…
Angel Berniz, Director of ProjectManagers.org, spoke at Nordic Project Zone. He’s talking about ISO 21500, the new project management standard. I caught up with him to find out why this new standard is important and how it will impact project managers. Angel, tell me why the new ISO 21500 standard is important for project management?…
Adrian Dooley, director of APMG and originally a construction project manager before he started helping other people do their projects better, was another one of the Conference: Zero presenters last month. He was reflecting on the APM’s vision of a world where all projects succeed, and his main point was that we need culture change…
Bjarte Bogsnes, Vice President – Performance Management Development at Statoil, spoke about a new way to budget, forecast, lead and manage at Nordic Project Zone. I talked to him to find out more about the ideas he’ll be presenting. You can read the first part of this interview here. Bjarte, what you are doing at…
Ever wonder if you are doing all the right things for your job search? This Is How to Get Your Next Job: An Inside Look at What Employers Really Want by Andrea Kay will put your mind at rest – or highlight areas where you could do better. The book starts by explaining what employers…
Bjarte Bogsnes, Vice President – Performance Management Development at Statoil, is speaking at Nordic Project Zone. I caught up with him to find out more about the ideas he’ll be presenting. Bjarte, what is Beyond Budgeting? Beyond Budgeting is a coherent set of leadership and management principles. The name is actually misleading. The purpose is…
One of the themes for this year’s International Project Management Day (which is today) is environmental projects that protect or preserve the environment. I don’t work on installing wind farms or developing solar energy products, but I have recently taken part in Conference: Zero, which was a low-carbon conference. Conference: Zero was put on by…
What are the benefits of project governance? This infographic shares 6 reasons why project governance is a good thing for projects and project managers.
Ulrik Moes, Project Director at pharma company Novo Nordisk, gave a presentation at Conference: Zero a fortnight ago about his ideas for empowering project teams. Ulrik has worked all over the world and has spent the last 8 years managing IT projects. His talk focused on tools for empowerment and the management of virtual teams….
Yes, you read that right. It’s a whole book about project management aimed specifically at people in the music business. And it’s very good. “What we can claim to have accomplished is based on what we finish, not on what we start,” writes Jonathan Feist, author of Project Management for Musicians. “Setting projects in motion…