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• Book review: So What?

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 148
  “Do you have any advent calendars?” I asked the shop assistant.She grunted and pointed to a display in the window.  They were ordinary 2010 wall calendars.“They’re not really what I was after,” I said.She grunted again and pointed to a pile of diaries.“Not really advent calendars,” I said, more to ...
  2 days ago

• Learn To Successfully Manage Your Projects – Come To PMI

  
  Website Marketing Club — Authority: 164
  Be it any company or organization, projects are an integral part and no one can deny its importance in today’s world. It helps us manage our projects and work in a better way. You get to learn about planning, organizing, controlling, directing and motivating people to perform better. A project is not just something ...
  4 days ago

• Giveaway winner

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 148
  And the first name out of the hat was Tony from Essex, UK. Congratulations:  a copy of Sharm Manwani’s book IT-Enabled Business Change is on its way.If you want to find out more about this book you can read the review here.  And if you are in London today and can get to the [...]Related posts: Giveaway winner: ...
  6 days ago

• Book review: Six-Word Lessons For Project Managers

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 148
  What can you learn from just 6 words?  According to Lonnie Pacelli, President of Leading on the Edge International quite a lot.  He was inspired by this anecdote:“Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was challenged by some friends to write a story in six words.  Hemingway responded to the challenge with the ...
  1 week ago

• BAs and PMs working together (part 4)

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 148
  In this final instalment of the ‘working together’ series, I’ll be looking at how to improve the working relationships between project managers and business analysts.Changing working relationships is often more about culture than concrete tasks, but there are some things you can do to smooth any blips in the way ...
  1 week ago

• What’s new: Genius

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 148
  The phone connection cuts out and I’m left listening to nothing.  Over in Canada Christophe Borlat, General Manager of Genius Inside, is also holding a dead phone.  No matter.  We’re on a web conference, so he types on his screen and I can read the new plan:  forgot phone lines, let’s talk on Skype.  A ...
  1 week ago

• BAs and PMs working together (part 3)

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 148
  Last week I wrote about what project managers value when working with business analysts.  This week I want to focus on what we don’t.Don’t worry: it’s not that bad!The differences in the ways that project managers work and the ways that business analysts work means that it’s not always easy to work ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Blog Awards!

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 148
  The lovely people at Computer Weekly announced the winners of the IT Blog Awards last night 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 Female category – Flynny’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Giveaway: last few days

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 148
  It’s not too late to enter the giveaway for a copy of Sharm Manwani’s book  IT-Enabled Business Change.You can add your name to the hat: provided I get your entry before Tuesday.  Find out how to enter here, and you could have this book as a Christmas present!No guarantees it will get to you by [...]Related ...
  3 weeks ago

• BAs and PMs working together (part 2)

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 148
  Last week I wrote about the way that project managers work, and how this relates to OTOBOS.  This week I want to explain what project managers value in our working relationships with business analysts.Project managers see BAs as architects.  They are detailed, they decide on and build solutions, they work in a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Book review: Friends with Benefits

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 148
  What a great title for a book about social media marketing.  No Starch Press has a habit of turning out great books – I’ve recently reviewed Growing Software: Proven Strategies for Managing Software Engineers: Big Strategies for Managing Small Software Companies for The Computer Journal and that was also a ...
  4 weeks ago

• BAs and PMs working together (part 1)

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 148
  About a month ago I spoke at the Business Analysis Conference about how project managers work, and how business analysts and project managers can work together more successfully.  As you can imagine, telling a room full of BAs that project managers don’t want to hear all that detail and analysis paralysis was ...
  4 weeks ago

• Vote for me!

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 148
  This is a shameless plug:  I’ve been nominated in the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards again this year and I would love to keep the title I won last year in the project management category.  I have also been nominated in the ‘best female IT professional’ category, and it would be nice to give the [...]Related ...
  4 weeks ago

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