October 2011
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I'm celebrating a milestone 18 months in the...
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, isn’t it? On Fridays, it most certainly is.
Trying to understand #occupywallstreet? Read...
First, read about who are the 99%. Then understand that “It’s the Inequality Stupid”. Then get angry.
March 2011
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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.
February 2011
4 posts
This video makes me laugh. Because the hydrocoptic...
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...
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An anthropological look at how Relationships...
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 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.)
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Tunisia, Egypt...is the corporate monarchy next? I...
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Even the lawyers have discovered the value of...
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?
January 2011
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Being a mother of teens is a prerequisite to...
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?
November 2010
2 posts
If you know more about other companies'...
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?
It's Digital Scrapbooking Day today. Go ahead, let...
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! via danpink.com
October 2010
2 posts
This week I've had many discussions about what is,...
…as soon as I put my head back together. This is going to get…interesting.
The Project Management Plan IS the Project Quality...
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 you are planning to manage the project in such a way that the customer’s requirements are being met. Thus, there is no need to have a PM Plan AND a Quality Plan. The PM Plan IS the Quality Plan....
August 2010
3 posts
Tattoos. Body-piercing. Men walking around with...
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 how I could tell that this was not your typical PMI* or corporate event.
No suits or ties. Lots of flip-flops, converse shoes, tattoos and body-piercing.
Did I mention the men...
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Why I moved one of Tumblr blogs to Posterous but...
Well, I finally moved one of my Tumblr blogs over here to Posterous. Here’s why: 1. Less really is more. Sure, Tumblr has more themes. But have you ever tried to go through them all to pick one? It takes forever. And then you try another one. And then you can’t remember where you found the first one. Before you know it, three hours have gone by. Posterous has about 10 themes....
If you handcuff a wiki with hierarchy, do you get...
“Wiki” means fast in Hawaiian. But if you impose a hierarchy on a wiki (who can write what, when, who can approve it), do you still have a wiki?
I say, no. You’ve just killed your wiki.
Stupid hierarchy.
Sucks the fun out of all the fun things that we come up with on the internet and web 2.0.
July 2010
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The Tipping Point (yeah, me too)
This book’s a best seller for a good reason. Because it’s a really good book. My principle head-exploding moments were:
(1) Weak ties (vs strong ties). A weak tie is why I am where I am. And why I have so much fun on Facebook. This one really has me thinking.
(2) The Dunbar number, applied to keeping big companies “small”, specifically the story of Gore and Associates....
June 2010
2 posts
Not even my husband...
DH: What are you doing?
Me: Writing.
DH: What about?
Me: Five reasons why hierarchy exists.
DH: Ugh. And to think I was going to ask how to subscribe to your blog. I’ll pass.
And so, I can’t even get my husband to read my blog. Oh well.
I'm going to start a revolution. One person at a...
This week was the first meeting I attended that started, and ended on time. That’s one.
I’m just getting started.