By Véronique Mermaz Editor’s note: I met Véronique through Twitter and LinkedIn and have since had several face-to-face conversations with her. As she says in her footnote, she is a native French speaker living in East Anglia, specialising in French marketing support. I was struck when I met her by the richness of her experience …
Creative project management: soft skills required! Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman It’s been an honour, whilst also slightly intimidating, to have a chapter included in this latest project management publication edited by Dennis Lock and Lindsay Scott: the Gower Handbook of People in Project Management1. Project teams may want to get to “high performance” more rapidly than operational teams As I say in the …
By Elisabeth Goodman This blog is a summary of my presentation at the APM KSIG event in Birmingham on 14th May 2013. A fuller write-up, including my and Martin Fisher’s notes on the highlights from the discussion will shortly be available on the APM website. Every project management input and output involves both information and …
Where Information Management ends and Knowledge Management begins – an extract Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman Managing, coaching, mentoring, training, consulting, counseling: these are all terms that may or may not be part of a team and project manager’s toolkit. How are they different? And how can coaching in particular be applied in project management? About 25 practicing project managers and others interested in the topic gathered near …
Coaching applied to project management – APM seminar (#APMEoE) Read More »
The Eastern Branch of the APM held a very enjoyable evening seminar on the future of project management with Paul Major (@changemakerPM, http://paulmajor.wordpress.com) on Wednesday 7th November. I captured Paul’s main points, and the course of the discussion in a series of tweets, which I’ve reproduced here with some additional notes. Shifted from delivering transformational change …
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By Elisabeth Goodman Being a ‘farmer’ not a ‘firefighter’ Some years ago when I was first learning about Lean and Six Sigma, a colleague shared an article he’d found comparing farmers and firefighters. People in organisations are often singled out when they have worked all hours to deal with a crisis, and yet the people …
Getting it right rather than ‘firefighting’…unless that’s your job! Read More »
I have just spent a very comfortable night in a Heathrow hotel, after a 5 hour round trip spent in the air somewhere between London and Boston. Although eating airline food, watching a (not very good) movie, and having a doze mid-air might be one way to spend an afternoon in May, it would not …
By Elisabeth Goodman and John Riddell, RiverRhee Consulting (Preview of a blog to appear on the APM website) A recent discussion thread on the APM (Association for Project Management) website focussed on the potential value of Lessons Learned and the failure modes that generally occur. We have edited the points made in the discussion thread into …
Lessons Learned – notes from an APM web briefing Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman and John Riddell On 6th July, we held a very enjoyable second iteration of our APM workshop on this topic in Norwich, having run it previously in Stevenage in May. As with the previous seminar, our audience ranged from people and organisations with very limited knowledge of Lean and Six Sigma, to …
Lean Six Sigma and Project Management – triangles and (virtuous) circles Read More »
Having recently completed OPP’s Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Step 1 qualification, I was fascinated by Dr David Hillson’s letter1 in this months’ APM Project Magazine Inbox, and Patrick Bird’s article in the previous issue on ‘Type Setting’2, which prompted the letter. Both the originating article and the responding letter refer to the ability to …
Personality Type and Project Management – with reference to MBTI Read More »
