by Jim | Apr 20, 2012 | Knowledge Work, Leadership, Management, Milestone Planner, Project Management
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...
by Jim | Mar 28, 2012 | Knowledge Work, Leadership, Milestone Planner, Productivity
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...
by Jim | Feb 20, 2012 | Management, Milestone Planner
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...
by Jim | Oct 11, 2011 | Event, On the road
Benjamin Ellis & I spent Saturday at Tweetcamp. For those not in the know, Tweetcamp is an unconference all about Twitter, its uses and its implications. Around two hundred people spent the day talking about a wide range of subjects, from Real Time News to...
by Jim | Aug 9, 2011 | Leadership, Management, Milestone Planner, planning, Project Management
You’ve made plans, got people on board and kicked off your project.. but as the focus turns to delivery, how do you keep the momentum going? We’ve found that much of the trick of successful project management is helping people to make clear commitments,...