The Passionate Project Manager Percolating



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Stuff I'm working on or thinking about before it grows into stuff worth blogging about.
And it's percolating until it's just right.
Tsk! Not about cooking, but about project management, business and cubicle dwelling.








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I’m celebrating a milestone 18 months in the making with a Pinot Grigio #PMOT

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, isn’t it?
On Fridays, it most certainly is.

01:55 pm, by elisabethbucci

08:41 pm, by elisabethbucci

The centuries-old problem of information overload.
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I love it how history teaches us, over and over again, that nothing is “new”. Including the Internet.

03:25 pm, by elisabethbucci

This video makes me laugh. Because the hydrocoptic technology is soooo Rockwell. ;)

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 ambaphascient lunar wain shaft, is to replace the lunar wain shaft entirely with the much more elegant fault-tolerant optomodal cavity, which creates the population inversion condition at the outset.

I mean, hello!

But then, after all, I did work for Honeywell for four years…

03:42 am, by elisabethbucci

An anthropological look at how Relationships influence Language, with lovely art thrown in. So many levels of awesome.

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 presentation (didn’t feel those 10 minutes go by).

Oh look, there’s a video on how we broke Capitalism!
(And she stayed in her pajamas all day glued to the computer.)

02:15 pm, by elisabethbucci

09:04 pm, by elisabethbucci

Even the lawyers have discovered the value of project management. So what are *you* waiting for?

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 value to their customers.

No fricking kidding, eh?

12:41 pm, by elisabethbucci

Being 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 revenge, isn’t it?

01:28 pm, by elisabethbucci1 note

If you know more about other companies’ performance than your own, maybe it’s time to start looking at data.

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 it?

04:58 pm, by elisabethbucci1 note

It’s Digital Scrapbooking Day today. Go ahead, let your right brain have fun. It’ll make you smarter. Daniel Pink says so. #PMOT

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, make me a better Project Manager. And now I have proof.

Ha!

10:47 am, by elisabethbucci