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Welcome to the October/November 2011 edition of the Carnival of Project Management, hosted this time here at Gantthead.
New to the Carnival? It's a round up of interesting blog posts related to project management, to help you discover some new blogs and some new ideas. It runs every two months and is hosted by a number of project management blogs including A Girl's Guide to Project Management and PMTips.net.
So, without further ado, here are this edition's great articles.
Rodney Maley presents Effective To Do Lists posted at Life-fficient. This is an interesting take on to do lists.
Ken Lange presents Grace Under Pressure posted at Kenneth Lange.
CA presents On estimating project tasks posted at Project Management - The Kanban Way, saying, "The post talks about issues surrounding project task estimation process". CA also submitted two other articles: Speed up project delivery using Critical Chain and Making Kanban work in matrix organizations. Useful reading if you are working with Kanban.
VyrtuNet presents Did I Do That? How to Stop “The Urkel Effect” posted at P3 Peak Performance, saying, "The Urkel Effect is a syndrome that often consumes certain key members of a project team, whereas they are often seen spinning seamlessly in multiple directions until they disappear altogether. One begins to observe this phenomenon when certain delusional symptoms appear, often followed by the words “Did I do that?” So where do project team members turn for relief? Enter the Project Manager equipped with just the right tool. Thokk the Project Troll has come up with a solution; a cure that may finally put an end to this awful spectacle."
Bob Lieberman presents The Can-Do Attitude posted at Cultivating Creativity – Developing Leaders for the Creative Economy.
Rich Maltzman, PMP presents The Elephant and the Swiss Army Knife posted at Earth PM. Rich is one of the authors of the book that won the Cleland prize for literature at PMI's awards last month, for his book, Green PM, so his views are certainly worth reading.
Anna Farmery presents 6 Tips to Reinvent your Next Meeting posted at The Engaging Brand. I particularly like the tip to decide before the meeting, not during it.
Stuart Arthur presents The Challenges of Project Management posted at Stuart Arthur. This is an interesting discussion of the differences between Scrum and PRINCE2, although I dispute the idea that a PRINCE2 approach can't be at least a bit Agile.
There's also another link worth sharing, particularly if you are looking for the best value for an investment in your PMO. Find The Best is a human-curated website with a section for project management software tools, so if you are working out where to spend your 2012 budget, you could find that useful. The good thing about being human-curated is that it's more intelligent than a search tool that just crawls the internet automatically.
Posted on: November 27, 2011 05:15 AM |
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