Taming Change with Portfolio Management: Unify Your Organization, Sharpen Your Strategy and Create Measurable Value is a meaty book. I got the paperback advance reader’s copy. I’ve been lumping it around for a while now. The hardback formal print run is now complete and the book is (just) on the shelves. Pat Durbin and Terry…
“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…
I try really hard not to let scope creep impose upon my projects, so why is it so difficult to stop it in the rest of my life? Despite my efforts to keep my language skills up since moving back to the UK from Paris, my French is rusty to the point where if it…
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…
Back in 2007, a group of NGO’s met in Baltimore. They realised that their projects were over or under spent and ineffective. “Because we are positive people we saw this as an opportunity,” said John Cropper, Global Programme Co-ordinator for Oxfam’s Raising Her Voice programme. They wanted to do something “by the sector for the…
I’ve just heard the sad news that last week Rita Mulcahy, Founder of RMC Project Management, passed away after a five-year battle with breast cancer. You can read her short obituary on the RMC website. I gave away one of Rita’s books last summer and it was perhaps the most popular giveaway I have ever…
Please excuse my amateur video skills! This one didn’t come out as well as I had hoped. The transcript for the video is below. Elizabeth Harrin: Well, good morning. I’m here at the National Council for Volunteer Organisations in London just around from King’s Cross. I’m looking at Regent’s Canal. It’s a great location. And…
I attended my first PMI UK Chapter meeting recently and the topic was Lean Six Sigma and Project Management: A Marriage Made in Heaven? I’m not sure what marriage had to do with it, but the presenter, Ishai Perelman, PMP®, Master Black Belt and a senior managing consultant with Pcubed, certainly pointed out the links…
There’s a relatively new software tool on the market – a tool which had it’s funding pulled after failing to make it big in 6 years, and was rescued from the rubbish bin by someone with practically no project management knowledge. Sounds like a disaster? Actually, Bob Light sounds like just the kind of person…