Tag: Opinion
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What can Bees teach us about project management?
I have been an apiarist (beekeeper) (as a hobby) for about 18 months, I now have 2 bee hives (a kind of project portfolio in its infancy). As with any hobby, the more time you invest in it, the more you begin to understand it. One of the most surprising observations I have regarding how a bee…
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PMI – Generative AI Overview for Project Managers – My eyes have been opened.
I recently completed an online training course offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI). The topic was an overview of how generative AI can support project management delivery. It was one of the few times when I have been a little skeptical about the content at the lead into the course, but then within minutes…
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MSP course review
I have passed my MSP foundation and practitioner course, originally booked with http://www.teampm.co.uk/ although I opted to change to the knowledge academy http://www.theknowledgeacademy.com/ as the earlier company kept rescheduling the course due to a lack of enrolled delegates. I thought I would share some of my thoughts and feelings about the MSP course for those…
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The 12 days of Christmas PM remix
So it has come to that time of year, budgets so carefully preserved for 11 months are being spent in a frivolous nature so they are not being cut from next years pot. Status meetings are being attended by people that would fail sobriety tests thanks to the previous nights free bar at the office…
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Book review – Bid Writing for Project Managers
A guest book review I wrote for Arras people Author: David Cleden Publisher: Gower Size: 240 pages Reviewed by Andy Budkiewicz In the interests of transparency, I must admit that I have never been involved directly in commercial bidding for contracts. However, I have sat on the ‘other side of the table’ as a client…
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Optical illusion – The devil is in the detail
Look at this picture what do you see? Spirals? How many different coloured spirals? Make a note of that and read on. I would like to associate that spiral picture to a common theme I have observed when it comes to decision making or even managing a project, I asked you, what seemed on…
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virtual teams (when being a host is not enough)
Have you ever found yourself in this situation… You are all set up in a meeting, you need to give an important update on a project, and gather some important feedback from the stakeholders in the room, you know the update could be a little controversial but that is why you organised the meeting, to…
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‘Poetry in Business’ course review
“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein Well I promised to mention how this course went, I must admit that I was a little sceptical when I first read the course overview, and talking to some other people they…
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Expectations of thinking different
“you can’t solve a problem using the same kind of thinking that created it” – Albert Einstein I recently attended a training course entitled “Poetry In Business” which formed part of a series of courses offered by the company I worked for as an initiative to promote innovation. That’s right, I said poetry in business. I…
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Book review – The One Page Project Manager for Execution: Drive Strategy and Solve Problems with a Single Sheet of Paper
Book review originally written for Arras people (Project managment recruitment) The One Page Project Manager for Execution: Drive Strategy and Solve Problems with a Single Sheet of Paper Authors: Clark A. Campbell with Mike Collins Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Size: 182 pages One of my guilty pleasures (I feel I can admit this amongst…