Tattoos. Body-piercing. Men walking around with babies. And enough learning...
A mere $40 got me two days worth of learning of all things Word Press at the extraordinary Word Camp Montreal. I'm already done one day, can't wait for tomorrow. (Yes, I am doing this for fun.) Here's...
View ArticleThe Project Management Plan IS the Project Quality Plan. So there. Thoughts?...
Help me settle a PM geek argument. In cases where your project has an external customer (who is paying for your project), I say that the PM Plan IS the Quality Plan, because it describes how you are...
View ArticleThis week I've had many discussions about what is, and is not, project...
...as soon as I put my head back together. This is going to get...interesting. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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It's Digital Scrapbooking Day today. Go ahead, let your right brain have fun....
I'm working my way through Daniel H. Pink's book "A Whole New Mind". His basic premise is that any right brain activity makes you smarter. See? I always knew that my hobbies, especially scrapbooking,...
View ArticleIf you know more about other companies' performance than your own, maybe it's...
Spent the day touring another company (manufacturer in the food industry) as part of a networking group. They have data EVERYWHERE. You can't improve what you can't measure. Sounds so obvious, doesn't...
View ArticleBeing a mother of teens is a prerequisite to survival as a project manager.
My advice gets ignored at home. (I only have 40+ years of experience, what do I know?) My advice gets ignored at work. (I only have 20+ years of experience, what do I know?) This is surely my Mom's...
View ArticleEven the lawyers have discovered the value of project management. So what are...
I attended a great event at PMI-Montreal this morning: apparently there's this wave of change in the legal field. Lawyers have discovered the value of Project Management to stay competitive, and add...
View ArticleTunisia, Egypt...is the corporate monarchy next? I can only hope...
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View ArticleAn anthropological look at how Relationships influence Language, with lovely...
via youtube.com This is awesome on so many levels: how relationships affect innuendo in language, the power of crowds (my favourite subject), and why you should avoid powerpoint bullets in a...
View ArticleThis video makes me laugh. Because the hydrocoptic technology is soooo...
Even though I am "only" a Project Manager, even I know that a much more effective solution to the side fumbling problem, rather than the cumbersome fitting of six (6!) hydrocoptic marzul vanes to the...
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The centuries-old problem of information overload.
via boston.com I love it how history teaches us, over and over again, that nothing is "new". Including the Internet. Permalink | Leave a comment »
View ArticleTrying to understand #occupywallstreet? Read these. Then get angry.
First, read about who are the 99%. Then understand that "It's the Inequality Stupid". Then get angry. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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I'm celebrating a milestone 18 months in the making with a Pinot Grigio #PMOT
See the full gallery on Posterous I threw in a risotto ai funghi misti just for fun. (And a tiramisu. Because of the 18 months part.)Celebrating milestones is the first rule of project management,...
View ArticleSure, Free is a business model. Just don't forget the revenue part.
I loved Chris Anderson's book Free which I listened to...wait for it...for free. (On iTunes, in case you're wondering.)But even Chris preaches the idea that Free has to lead to money eventually,...
View ArticleOf these scarily ambitious start-up ideas, my favourite is replace email....
Email is so broken that it stuns me that we still haven't replaced it yet. But it needs to be replaced with something that's just as easy (if not easier). And, no, not Google Wave. As for the...
View ArticleGoogle's "fatal flaw" kind of explains Google+
"And therein lies the company’s biggest flaw in my estimation—impatience with those not quick enough to grasp the obvious truth of Google’s...
View ArticleHow Yahoo killed Flickr and lost the Internet
Buying a company is easy. Integrating a company: not so much. I can't help but wonder: will Facebook make the same mistake with Instagram that Yahoo made with Flickr?...
View ArticleI'm not being idle, I'm being creative. Except if you're a teenager.
This is my favourite quote (of a quote) from Chapter 1 of Scott Berkun's "The Myths of Innovation": "Freeman Dyson, a world-class physicist and author agrees: 'I think it’s very important to...
View Article5 ways to tell you are not at a typical PM event #wcmtl i#in
1. There's a Twitter hash tag given out at the start of the event...and people use it.2. One of the sponsors (Microsoft) gives away ice cream.3. Body piercings and tatoos: yes. Ties: hell no.4. You're...
View ArticleThe scary thing about this infograph? I remember punch cards.
When I started my undergrad in Engineering, the fourth years told us that in their first year, they were programming on punch cards. So, technically, I remember punch cards.Scary, isn't...
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