An icy reception
After half an hour I was starting to notice that my fingers, wrapped around my block of ice glass, were no longer there.
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Strikes and scope
The office is going into emergency mode at the moment in preparation for crippling strikes tomorrow. We’ve received flyers from the unions, an email from HR about how to get to work despite there being only 37% service on some lines. How the RATP have calculated their service that precisely I’m not sure, but given…
The Gipsy Moth IV project
The restoration effort has been a significant project: 28 weeks, 9000 hours. Not bad for a boat bought for £1 and a gin and tonic
Fixed date projects are like weddings
Some projects are already time-bound when you receive them, and while this way of planning is not the most controlled way to manage a project, it is possible – and I am just about to find out how possible. Suddenly, a project that has been dragging on for a year, and I thought I had…
What is OTOBOS?
OTOBOS is On Time, On Budget, On Scope. This definition of what makes a project successful misses out quality, happy stakeholders and a whole host of stuff, but it’s a good starting point. If you can deliver OTOBOS, chances are that you are doing something right.
Introducing my projects
I think it’s about time I explained a little more about the projects I’ve got on the go at the moment. My role is about two-thirds projects and a third operational management. It’s the first time I’ve had an operational job and it’s great. I think what I like about that part of my day…
OTOBOS and nems au chocolat
Part of a PMs role is to educate our colleagues in what PM means as a discipline. That you can’t just change the scope and give us no more resources. That you have to sign of a plan before we can start work on it. I had someone email me this week with comments on…
A change for the better
I hate change, which is ironic given the job I do.
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Hello!
Every company I’ve worked in has had a healthy contingent of women in their project management teams. But when I go to a conference, breakfast briefing or seminar I’m often one of a few female project managers in the room. And at 29 one of the youngest. So, the aim of this blog is: *…