by Benjamin Ellis | Jun 14, 2012 | Milestone Planner
The latest release of Milestone Planner is now live. While the timeline page remains the same, we have completely rewritten the rest of the application from the ground up. We have introduced a number of new features already, but most importantly, the new structure...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 30, 2012 | Productivity
These are my (live) notes from Tom Chatfield’s (@TomChatfield) talk at Thinking Digital 2012. As Tom started to talk, my ears pricked up and I thought this would be interesting to many of you. The following are Tom’s thoughts (which I strongly agree with):...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 28, 2012 | Event, Leadership, On the road
With thanks to The Big Partnership, this is their interview with me, just after I stepped off of the stage at the 2010 Like Minds event in Exeter. In short: We don’t know what we don’t know! Many businesses are obsessed with information technology....
by Benjamin Ellis | 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 Benjamin Ellis | Apr 17, 2012 | Management, Milestone Planner
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 commitments. It’s not a well known concept, but in the places that I’ve seen it...
