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…
“Everyone thinks they are the big boss,” says Laura Aziz. “Everyone thinks they are managing the others.” It’s one of the complexities that Laura is managing as part of putting the IT systems into a massive 7-star hospital in the Middle East: complete with wifi, electronic mediccal records and video conferencing. It’s a multi-year, multi-phase…
The Equality Bill is still – yawn – going through Parliament. And while I’m not a huge fan, the Bill does include reforms on equal pay laws, and that I support. Who wouldn’t want more money? Seriously though, the statistics are shocking: 39% of male project managers earn over £50k, but only 19% of female…
Don’t arrive hot and bothered. It’s OK to take off your coat and jacket on public transport. Honestly, you don’t have to sit there baking, although people on the Tube seem to think there are laws against undressing.* Know where you are going. That means maps! And/or an accurate postcode for GPS. Plus phone number…
“It’s really an exciting time for project management despite the economy,” says Greg Balestrero, CEO of PMI, as we sit around the board room table. “There’s a shift towards executing that we haven’t seen before.” It’s the final day at the PMI Global Congress in Orlando, and Greg seems very happy about how the event…
Last week I reviewed Projecturf. It’s a relative newcomer to the project management tool-place, so I decided to talk to Chuck Pearson, CEO of Projecturf. He’s a man with big plans, and he’s no fan of Basecamp or Microsoft Project… Projecturf was first launched in March of 2008, but was in beta for a year…
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.
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…