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 [...]
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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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Hands up if you feel that things in your business are changing faster than they used to? Are priorities constantly changing? Do you find yourself reacting to customer issues which seem to blow up from nowhere? Do you feel you are working for more than one ‘boss’ and juggling competing needs while the organisation is shifting [...]
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A conversation at the recent Dell B2B event at Google’s UK HQ, and a subsequent blog post, have finally prompted me into writing down some of my thoughts around the current trend of scoring influence, and the related social metrics industry that is being birthed out of both the US and the UK. The question of [...]
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