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…
Pull up a comfy chair, pour yourself a drink and wait for the project team to come to you. Welcome to the world of productive project management laziness, and Peter Taylor is the laziest of all. In a good way. Peter’s book, The lazy project manager: How to be twice as productive and still leave…
Recently I reviewed How to Manage in a Flat World: 10 Strategies to get connected to your team wherever they are by Susan Bloch and Philip Whiteley. I was really interested in the shift towards flat structure management and a more coherent approach to managing dispersed teams, so I spoke to the authors to find…
It’s an odd experience, reading a book about project management that uses none of the language of project management or business analysis. Phil Simon’s book, Why New Systems Fail: Theory and Practice Collide, is a study of IT project failure from a consultant’s perspective. Simon has plenty of experience of implementing large scale systems, and…
I joined in with Managing and Saving Programs in a Changing World, an audio/Webex conference with LeRoy Ward, Executive VP at ESI, recently. It wasn’t radical – the ESI approach to managing programs in a changing world is obviously to be great at the basics – but it was a good revision session and a…
You love your laptop, right? It goes where you go and it’s oh so handy for meetings. Well, personally I’m a pen and paper girl but if it’s really important and will make things easier I will tote around my laptop and use it in meetings. Not using it for every meeting makes me acutely…
“This lecture pays due tribute to a lot of our computing heritage,” says Alan Pollard, BCS President in full regalia with a presidential medal around his neck. I take my seat in the conference room of The Wellcome Trust. It’s a beautiful space. One of the best things about attending events is getting to nose…
Apparently the average salary for a programme manager is £70,196, down from £72,510 this time last year, according to G2, an IT specific recruitment agency. The range of programme manager salaries is actually much narrower than I was expecting, with the average minimum being £65,513 (last year – £66,711) and maximum being £74,990 (last year…
Today I want to look at the Pareto principle, otherwise known as the 80/20 rule. As an Office Goddess, you make everything you do look effortless, although afterwards you can explain just how complex it was. No whinging while doing the task, mind. There’s no real secret to getting everything done – it’s just a…
This article first appeared in 2009 – SharePoint has moved on a bit since this book was released! The book has been updated to the latest edition of SharePoint. You can’t run a project without a plan, and you can’t plan in SharePoint. That’s the major failing of this book. Microsoft SharePoint doesn’t integrate with Microsoft…
You would have thought that with the research on pay gaps and the Exemplar Employer report we would be past discussing whether women get a fair deal at work and would have moved on to what people are actually going to do about it. BCS, e-skills UK and Intellect, in association with the Department for…
I’ve just come back from Jukkasjärvi in Sweden, a place I’ve wanted to visit for ever because it’s where they build the magnificent Ice Hotel every year. It was on the list of things to do before I hit 30, but I didn’t make it. It struck me as a coincidence that just as I…