Look at pretty much any job specification for a project manager and you will see (in the UK at least) a requirement that candidates are PRINCE2 certified. For those not familiar with it, PRINCE2 is a UK government endorsed, project management methodology. It stands for PRojects IN Controlled Environments (see what they did there!) and [...]
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We often blog about Milestone Planner as a commitment tracker:- what have I committed to do for who… But it seems the right time to talk a bit more about management by commitment. It’s not a well known concept, but in the places that I’ve seen it practised, it delivers stunning results. I’m going to [...]
Read 'Managing by Commitments' >>One of the phrases that sticks in my mind from the Internal Communications panel session at Social Media World Forum was from Andrew Barendrecht. Andrew talked about social in a business as a “Structured Revolution”. As a Collaboration Strategist at Apache Corp, he is introducing social technologies to solve some of the problems with transfer of [...]
Read 'Social for collaboration: A Structured Revolution' >>During the recent Social Media Week London, I had the privilege of chairing a session on psychology. The silent revolution behind social media has been to create an environment where there is more data about what we are doing, where we are doing it and who we are doing it with, than at any other [...]
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I seem to spend a lot of mental effort battling between the benefits of structured versus unstructured approaches to doing things, so a 1972 essay by Jo Freeman (aka Joreen) recently caught my attention. The article was originally published in the Berkeley Journal of Sociology, and appeared in Ms. magazine a year later - you can read [...]
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