Project management articles, updates and reviews from Elizabeth Harrin.
Dr Eliyahu Goldratt, the management expert who developed Critical Chain project management, has passed away. Dr Goldratt was the author of The Goal, which has sold over 13 million copies since publication in 1984. He also wrote Critical Chain. His theories are still influential – he’s quoted in The Project Management Answer Book by Jeff…
I’m delighted to announce that the APM’s youngest ever female fellow has been appointed and her name is… Elizabeth Harrin. – Penny Pullan, CoChair, WiPM SIG I have had the results from my application for Fellowship of the Association for Project Management – and I’m now a Fellow! (Thanks to Brendan for the title of…
Over 75% of you feel that social media tools provide the opportunity to improve the way you manage projects, according to this year’s Social Media in a Project Environment survey. The 2011 results show how project managers around the world are using Collaboration Tools to manage projects and lead teams. There was lots of interest…
In February 2011 I fell off the stage while giving a presentation. I was talking about using social media on projects to PMI’s UK Chapter, giving The Presentation With The Mixed Feedback that I also delivered at the PMI Global Congress in Washington the year before. The event was hosted in the wonderful Thomson Reuters…
I’ve got the session feedback back for my presentation on Social Media and Project Management at PMI’s Global Congress in October. It’s mixed. 192 people attended the session, and 65 filled in the feedback forms. Feedback ranged from: “It was awesome to hear her points and research.” “Outstanding.” “Extremely pertinent in today’s PM world.” “Right…
I attended the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards last night, as I’d been nominated in the Project Management category. And… I won! I also won the Blog of the Year award, selected by the judges and IBM who were the sponsor, and I was runner up in the IT Professional Female category, which was won…
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!
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…
Earlier in the month I attended a womenintechnology event about the business value of social media – something I’m particularly interested in, given the topic of my forthcoming book. The evening was held at the Intellect offices on Russell Square, and the room was packed. It was a pretty small room, in comparison to some…
Several people have asked me what goes on at the PMI New Media Council meetings. The NMC was launched in 2008 and is a group of bloggers, podcasters and other online folk whom PMI describe as ‘influential voices’. We have come together to act as an advisory and sounding board for PMI. We’re not paid…
The lovely people at Computer Weekly announced the winners of the IT Blog Awards last night ( 25 November, 2009) at a presentation at Shoreditch House. And I’m really pleased to say that – thanks to you all – I won the Project Management category! I was also the runner up in the IT Professional…
“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…