Project Management hints and tips, tricks and advice
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…
A while ago I received a cheap-looking letter from the gym. You know, one of those where they have photocopied a photocopy and it ends up looking tatty and not-quite-black. “Your subscription is nearly up!” it helpfully informed me. “You should think about renewing.” I certainly did think about renewing. For about a minute, and…
My phone rings at work. “Hello? I’m calling about the leak.” “What leak? What’s happened?” “The leak from upstairs.” Oh. My pulse goes back to normal. Small leak, small insurance claim, opportunity to meet my upstairs neighbour in a situation where he wasn’t telling me I couldn’t install a smoke alarm because it was against…
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…
With the canicule that France is suffering from at the moment, the weather is the talk of the town. The heatwave has surpassed the general French favourite of food as the topic of the moment and it is one good reason to work long hours – at least we have air conditioning in the office…
The sales are on in Paris at the moment. The sales are government-controlled, so all shops have a sale at the same time and sales at any other moment are forbidden. On my way to the bus stop each morning I walk past 5 lingerie shops, full of plastic models with drawn-on stomach muscles and…
Why is it that some weeks make you feel like you’re drowning and in others you’re just driftwood in the sea of project management, bobbing along with not a care in the world? This week has been a drowning week. I have found myself with two miniscule projects to sort out, and the smaller the…
Sorry this post is a day late – I have been distracted with visitors and the Eurostar Da Vinci Code Quest. I gave my presentation on Scope Management to the British Computer Society’s Project Management Specialist Group on Thursday, which went well. They were kind enough to give me a souvenir paperweight as a memento…
The office is going into emergency mode at the moment in preparation for crippling strikes tomorrow. We’ve received flyers from the unions, an email from HR about how to get to work despite there being only 37% service on some lines. How the RATP have calculated their service that precisely I’m not sure, but given…
I hate change, which is ironic given the job I do.
“Practising batting my eyelids was essential preparation for a steering group meeting…”