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National “Be Nice to your Suppliers” Week
Posted on March 7, 2012 | No CommentsTweet EDITOR’S NOTE: Written on behalf of Global Knowledge, this post’s author is Barry Corless, the Business Development Director for Best Practice at Global Knowledge and Chairman of itSMF UK.... -
Leading Successful PMOs: Part 2
Posted on October 17, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Here’s the second part of Peter Taylor’s Leading Successful PMOs post, you can read the first part here if you missed it. Peter has also recently launched a new... -
The Keys to the Lazy Project Manager – What is “Productive Laziness”?
Posted on September 2, 2011 | No CommentsTweet EDITOR’S NOTES: This article was submitted to us by regular Camel contributors the PM Oracles – Gareth Byatt, Gary Hamilton and Jeff Hodgkinson. For this occassion, the PM Oracles... -
Differentiating Yourself: Where Things Stand Today
Posted on August 31, 2011 | No CommentsTweet In recent times we have advised potential job seekers that a significant amount of job vacancies are never advertised to the wider public. In fact 80% of roles are... -
Rapport in Project Management – NLP Insights
Posted on July 12, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Last month at the Rethinking Leadership conference (see the previous post on the Project Management Decade) Peter Parkes from NLP4PM talked specifically about NLP and Project Leadership. You might... -
Three quarters of PMs See Benefit of Social Media
Posted on April 27, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Over 75% of project professionals feel that social media tools provide the opportunity to improve the way they manage projects, according to a new survey I’ve overseen & compiled.... -
Criminal Business Case Writers and Medieval Fools
Posted on March 14, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Last week I went along to the PMOSIG conference in Coventry, the theme for the day was portfolio management and the delegates were specifically interested in what this means... -
Project Management in the Creative World
Posted on January 20, 2011 | 2 CommentsTweet Consider this oxymoron for a moment – project management rules the creative worlds of marketing, media, design and the arts. That’s right; the world of process, structure, control and... -
9 Characteristics of Outstanding Leadership
Posted on January 19, 2011 | No CommentsTweet I was conducting some research the other day on employment and work and came across this excellent report on Outstanding Leadership from the Work Foundation. The Work Foundation are... -
Book Review – Re-imagining the Office
Posted on October 15, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Author: Adryan Bell Publisher: Gower Size: 126 pages Reviewed by Nicola Thorp This book starts out talking about the changes in technology within the office workspace – a few... -
Prince2 & The Modern Project Manager
Posted on September 28, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Who are the candidates that appear to value and / or have invested in PRINCE2 in their quest for gainful project management employment? In this piece we are looking... -
Is English Football a Project or a Programme to Capello?
Posted on June 23, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet Footballers for the English team may hold the same sway over the success of a World Cup campaign as a project team holds over the success of a project.... -
Rejoinder to Project Management as a Profession- Some Things to Consider
Posted on May 24, 2010 | 5 CommentsTweet In the May issue of Arras People’s project management newsletter, Dan Strayer was talking about the “professionalisation” of project management, and I wanted to add a somewhat contrarian, some... -
How to keep Project Management straightforward when freelancing
Posted on May 17, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Project Management can seem like a daunting job if you’re a freelance newbie. As well as the responsibility and organisation required, it can be very easy to feel intimidated... -
Tuesday with Morning Links: February Edition
Posted on February 2, 2010 | 2 CommentsTweet I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn’t that I didn’t know what I was... -
The Survey For Project Managers To Close Wednesday
Posted on January 25, 2010 | No CommentsTweet We’ve crossed the 90-minute mark for the 2010 Project Management Benchmark Survey. Two days of extra time will be added on to the clock. The leading UK survey of trends,... -
Monday Morning Links – 18th January 2010
Posted on January 18, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet Five for Linking: Soma Bhattacharya of Stepping Into PM interviews Peter Taylor about The Lazy Project Manager, concluding the laziness ‘is not a bad thing’ - http://www.steppingintopm.com/2010/01/interview-with-lazy-pm.html Jo Ann Sweeney of Sweeney... -
Guest Blogger – Are you working too hard as a Project Manager to be successful?
Posted on January 15, 2010 | No CommentsTweet “Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” - Robert Heinlein The 2009 Standish Group report shows more projects... -
Monday Morning Links – 11th January
Posted on January 11, 2010 | No CommentsTweet A Programme Manager got challenged by a subordinate this week and was subsequently suspended from an ongoing project. That was my immediate reaction to David Stern’s decision to suspend... -
Tuesdays with Morning Links
Posted on January 5, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet So the noughts, aughts, double-0′s, infinity-turned-its-side decade is left to the historians and now. Just figuring out what to call this decade past has been a trip. With that... -
Q: What is the Project Manager’s New Year’s Resolution?
Posted on January 4, 2010 | No CommentsTweet A: Provide his/her colleagues with the most accurate reading of the project management climate in 2010. Q: How can one do this? A: Take the 2010 Project Management Benchmark Survey... -
17 Working Days of December
Posted on December 4, 2009 | No CommentsTweet The seventeen working days of December are not just a busy time of year for Santa and his Elves (they may have 23 if we include weekends) but also... -
What IS Your Risk Management Philosophy?
Posted on November 27, 2009 | No CommentsTweet If the content in the headline doesn’t stop you in your tracks, it will definitely do so when inserted into the content of a job interview question instead. When... -
Book Review – The Lazy Project Manager
Posted on November 20, 2009 | 2 CommentsTweet Author: Peter Taylor, available through Amazon See details on how to win this book below It is extremely unusual for me to pick up a ‘management book’ involuntarily. I... -
Applications – and what they tell us about you
Posted on November 4, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet Everyone recognizes that we are currently experiencing a tough market. Feedback from candidates, reinforced by our own experiences, is that clients’ expectations are raised. I therefore find it unbelievable... -
Changing Organisational Think Changes Organisational Behaviour
Posted on October 28, 2009 | No CommentsTweet I have been looking at the reasons why large and complex organisations have such difficulty in bringing in changes that are designed to improve performance but often fail to... -
Tipoffs is out!
Posted on June 22, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Well, we’ve done it again! Project Management Tipoffs, the newsletter from Arras People, is out and ready for download today. You can subscribe to this beacon of project management...
