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 Comms drops some of her knowledge on attention-grabbing communication activities – http://www.commsabilities.com/blog.asp?blogid=29
- For one of the best project management podcasts on the web, PM’s in the know have long turned to Cornelius Fichtner at, appropriately, the PM Podcast. They now have a new, revamped website for you to turn to – http://www.pm-podcast.com/
- Guest poster Travis Anderson drops by the PM Student blog of Josh Nankivel, and drops thoughts on what books project managers find most helpful. The post generated loads of comments, of which you’ll no doubt want to help with – http://pmstudent.com/whats-in-your-library/
- Samad Aidane of Guerilla Project Management helps us to understand and cope with the wake of “project termination” – http://www.guerrillaprojectmanager.com/the-%E2%80%9Cemotional-wake%E2%80%9D-of-terminated-projects?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GuerrillaProjectManagement+(Guerrilla+Project+Management)
#pmot Tweeter of the Week: Soma Bhattacharya’s blog takes on the persona of someone new to project management, as she comes from a Business Analyst’s background. Enlightening is especially her interview with the Lazy Project Manager author Peter Taylor and how the concept of The Lazy PM came to be.
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