Author: Elizabeth Harrin

Elizabeth Harrin is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management in the UK. She holds degrees from the University of York and Roehampton University, and several project management certifications including APM PMQ. She first took her PRINCE2 Practitioner exam in 2004 and has worked extensively in project delivery for over 20 years. Elizabeth is also the founder of the Project Management Rebels community, a mentoring group for professionals. She's written several books for project managers including Managing Multiple Projects.

The Parisian project manager’s breakfast

Following my (rather dismissive) comments about recognition breakfasts for project managers on Projects@Work (no longer available), I thought it would be interesting to consider what breakfast choices are available to the busy PM, in case anyone close to me feels like laying on a recognition breakfast in my honour to celebrate International Project Management Day…

Book review: Syngress IT Security Project Management Handbook

Book review: Syngress IT Security Project Management Handbook

Network security is an ongoing task and this heavy-weight book tackles it with both a sense of immediacy and a long-term view of strategic IT security planning. Syngress IT Security Project Management Handbook aims to present an operational framework for security planning. It is written in a very accessible style and the pages are clear….

Launch week

Last week was all go, so I was glad to have last weekend in Villefranche-sur-Mer, looking at the houses set into the cliffs, making the most of a little bit of free time before the project kicked off. Launch week for any project is always busy, but it’s my favourite time. It’s the moment when…

Implementing lessons learnt

The main problem, in my opinion, with post-implementation reviews is the difficulty with sharing the results with other people: making sure others don’t make the same mistakes you did and benefit from reusing things that went really well. What’s a post-implementation review? A meeting to evaluate the project’s successes and challenges and record any learnings…

From across the pond

This week, in between watching the complete DVD box set of Series 1 of Un Paso Adelante, the Spanish version of Fame (what is Diana’s problem?), and trying too many perfumes in Sephora, I read an interesting report about the management of US government projects. The US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is required…

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Taking a risk with cerise-chocolat

This weekend I did something I’ve never done before. I dyed my hair. Call it a nearing-30 crisis, a moment of folly in Auchan, the inspiration of my sister’s perfect highlights… Anyway, armed with a box of little tubes, powders and liquids we set to work Saturday afternoon. I am generally quite risk-averse. I think…