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...
by Benjamin Ellis | Mar 19, 2012 | Leadership, Management, Milestone Planner, Productivity
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...
by Benjamin Ellis | 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 Benjamin Ellis | Nov 14, 2011 | Management
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...
by Benjamin Ellis | 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,...
