Agile is: Change friendly Iterative Collaborative Chunked delivery Communications focused Business focused Scope tolerant Quality focused (if you do it correctly!) These were the themes that set the tone for Keith Richards’ presentation at the APM Conference in London last month. “The basics of project management seem to have been thrown away with some Agile,”…
In this video I talk to Josh Nankivel from pmStudent.com, about new trends in project management (and some pitfalls), specifically around collaboration tools and social media. A transcript follows below. We’re on the bank of the Potomac River, in National Harbour, Maryland, just down from Washington, D.C. Josh Nankivel: Hello everyone! This is Josh from…
I recently took the 5 day Managing Successful Programmes (MSP®) course with Maven Training. I’ve done courses with Maven in the past, and I’ve also met many of their team and their CEO Melanie Franklin. But the reason I choose them this time was because of their innovative approach to delivering training in a way…
Just as Sarah Brown is launching her new initiative, Women: Inspiration and Enterprise, we get news of more evidence of discrepancies in women’s pay. The good news is that according to CMI research, this year our salaries rose by 2.8% compared to 2.3% for men. The bad news is that we are still way behind…
“I don’t think there are any magic bullets to deal with the uncertainty we face,” said David Cleden, when he presented at the Gower/NCPM Experts’ Forum earlier this year. His presentation was on organisational strategies for dealing with uncertainty. Cleden brought up the famous ‘known/unknowns’ diagram and pointed out that the commonly-seen version with four…
“The role of director of user experience is pretty new,” says Steve Ballard, who has taken on this position at project management software company Workfront. “In consumer software it’s not so new. The product has to sell itself so the focus is on products that are useful.” The difference with software you use at work…
The July issue of Project Management Tipoffs from Arras People included their fun attempt at updating the phonetic alphabet, along with a challenge to readers to have a go at creating their own. Here’s my attempt, with a distinctly PM feel: Want to know what Zombie PM is? I’ll tell you next week!
“The risk people are the business prevention people,” said David Hillson, at the beginning of his presentation at the Gower Experts’ Forum at the National Centre for Project Management. He pointed out that the results from the 2009 CHAOS report aren’t that much better than those when CHAOS started out: last year the survey reported…
A transcript of this video is below. Elizabeth Harrin: Well I’m here in the beautiful grounds of Middlesex University at the National Centre for Project Management because there is an event tonight hosted by Gower Publishing. And one of the editors for Gower is Professor Darren Dalcher who works at the National Centre for Project…
Digité is head quartered in Mountain View, California and was started as a collaboration between two companies. The objective was to bring out a tool that would help people collaborate and fulfill the needs of a trend they had already spotted back in 2003, that of distributed teams. “It’s not a PPM tool trying to…
Is there are big divide between project management academics and those offering training? And do project managers need both? These were some of the questions discussed at a recent BCS event where a panel debated the differences between project management education and training. The evening started with a vote on the motion: “Education and training…
5pm is web-based, on demand project management software. It looks lovely and the user interface is intuitive. It’s very easy to get going and the help feature is good if you get stuck (they have videos and a blog which covers new features and useful info like downtime). The main downside I could see is…