by Benjamin Ellis | Jun 4, 2010 | Milestone Planner
If you have logged into Milestone Planner in the last day or two, you will have seen the latest new feature, the Activity Stream. A Better Sense of History Plans, as we call them in the app now – a nice, friendly short hand for projects – have always had a...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 26, 2010 | Event, Milestone Planner
Today I am up at Thinking Digital, in Gateshead. The evidence that the digirati are here in force is that the conference tag – #TDC10 – was trending topic on Twitter. Jonathan Drori has just given a provocative talk on the on classic pitfalls of business...
by Caalie | May 19, 2010 | Management, Milestone Planner
I caught site of a post about managing client expectations. Lots of us have projects to implement which involve not only folks from within our organisation, but clients, suppliers, contractors from other organisations. Sometimes managing the to-ing and fro-ing of...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 18, 2010 | Milestone Planner, On the road
Thursday’s Being-Social Mashup event turned into a focal point for recent thinking and discussion. I chaired a panel on “How Social Media is changing the way we communicate” with Andrew Davis, Chris Thorpe, Jamie Riddell and David Cushman. Of course, within that...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 12, 2010 | Milestone Planner, planning
It’s been an interesting few days in the UK, but my eyes have been drawn to a news story about US president Obama. It’s positioned as a bombshell, but I’m not so sure why. “‘You’re coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 4, 2010 | Milestone Planner, planning, Project Management
Before you read this you’ll need a pen and a piece of paper… OK. Draw a square. Now draw a triangle on top of the square. On the right hand side of the triangle, just on top, draw a rectangle. Now inside the first square you drew draw four other squares...
