Synesthesia

I’ve just heard that I have passed my PRINCE2 Practitioner qualification, thanks to the excellent help of Pearce Mayfield. I’ve been familiar with the PRINCE2 method for a number of years, and have certainly applied the principles to local methods, but have resisted getting into it too formally because of the bureaucratic nightmare I have seen many organisations [...]

I’ve just heard that I have passed my PRINCE2 Practitioner qualification, thanks to the excellent help of Pearce Mayfield. I’ve been “broadly familiar” with the PRINCE2 method for a number of years, but have resisted getting into it too deeply because of the bureaucratic nightmare I have seen many organisations make from it. One of the best [...]

I spent half a day earlier this week at the Best Practice User Group Congress. BPUG is concerned with the application and use of OGC products such as Prince2, MSP and MoR. As you might expect therefore there was little mention of alternative methods such as Agile. I didn’t have time to attend the conference sessions, so this is somewhat less than [...]

New on the bookshelf… Proactive Risk Management, Controlling Uncertainty in Product Development by Preston G. Smith and Guy M. Merritt Technorati Tags: Books, Project_Management

OpenOffice are starting on a project management tool [via Clarke Ching]

Over at Reforming Project Management Hal Macomber is seeking to transfer the learning from Lean Production into the project management world. In Lean Production there exists the concept of the “visual workplace”, commonly expressed through the 5S model. Hal points out that projects may not always involve material products and resources but always involve people [...]

Almost 4 years after I wrote this post, a very similar idea emerges spontaneously over at ActivityOwner, with the difference that he has actually produced the first iteration of a tool to do the export... Using a commercial mind-mapping tool for project start-up (amongst other things)

Shaking off the “Shoulds”, Pardon Sisyphus by Johanna Rothman The Politics of Projects by Geoff Choo Project Integrity Hal Macomber [Source Hal Macomber] Technorati Tags: Project_Management

Link to excellent project management site