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 in mind, Camel readers, we ask the following: Let’s all agree that well before 31st of December 2019, the new decade will have been called the Teens. Simple, straight-forward, accurate, and it will have a sort of fountain of youth quality in making us feel a lot younger than we’ll ever be again. Try it out: “I’m a teener.”
Sounds like you’re about to meet your crush at his/her locker.
At any rate, Arras People and the rest of the project people here at Camel HQ welcome you to a new year and a new decade with an eye toward the future and a thought for the project managers hoping to make tomorrow a successful day. It’s a future that includes green principles, London 2012, financial rebirth and refocus, and more enticing methodologies to wade through.
You, the project people of that illustrious tomorrow, are just the people to shape that future.
The 2010 Project Management Benchmark Survey from Arras People is where you can shape it.
Project people throughout the UK are encouraged to enlist their views on relevant matters concerning project management yesterday, today and tomorrow in this Survey. A variety of issues like methodologies, greenification, project failure, and remuneration/bonuses are the areas we feel will strongly affect the new year and perhaps even in the longer term. In essence, earning our status over five prior editions means the ensuing Benchmark Report (due at the end of January) has been building toward the future of project management.
But only with the input of those directly affected. Allow your voice to be heard and take the survey today.
Five for Linking
- Soma Bhattacharya of Stepping Into Project Management has a two-part post peeking into the everyday lives of renowned project managers and their New Year’s resolutions – http://www.steppingintopm.com/2009/12/sneak-peek-into-life-of-project.html
- Elizabeth Harrin of pm4girls fame is writing a new book on social media and its long term affect on project management. She offers a short survey delving into these topics - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/B6JVSY9
- John Estrella of Dr. John A. Estrella Blog is fresh off a “nice and easy” 5K with 19 Reasons Why Project Management is Useless. Hoping the title will not fool you, lest you’ve ignored his opening caveat: “Project management will remain ineffective and inefficient unless the…” Read on -http://blog.johnestrella.com/2010/01/why-project-management-is-useless/
- Bas de Baar, the Project Shrink, will have lots to say in this month’s Tipoffs about Social Media. For today’s link, Bas deftly surmises just how this simplest of choices (what to say) will affect your power over an audience – http://blog.softwareprojects.org/a-felicitous-new-year-or-awesome-or-whatever-2301.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+projectshrink+%28Software+Projects+Blog%29
- Whether geographically-bound to the US or UK, the holiday season was plagued by the white stuff. Josh Nankivel, the PM Student, gets topical in the anti-tropical with some risk management thoughts on snow removal. (Personal note: Living in the UK as an American expatriate, I somehow found myself longing for the orange lights a yellow trim of snow plows. People in my adopted hometown are nodding their heads right now) - http://pmstudent.com/risk-management-in-the-snow/
Tweeter to Watch: kareemshaker - Kareem Shaker is a Dubai-based PMP who “has a passion to write about project, program, people, & time management, productivity, software, and interesting stuff!” For those fortunate enough to have a busy TweetDeck filled with project-related search columns, which I do, you’ll no doubt have seen Kareem emerge in the last couple of weeks as a real mover and shaker (pun intended) in the PMP blogosphere. He drops comments on the blog pieces of others, and has an in-depth, well-written self-titled blog. KareemShaker.com this week features an involved, thought-out post about a concept he calls Social Loafing. It’s worth a read.
The Arras/Camel Shameless Plug of the Week: A little thing from the Camel called the Project Management Benchmark Survey and the New Year’s Resolution all project managers should employ.
Twitter: pm4girls
Thanks, Dan! I will share the results of the social media survey once they are available.