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Dear ,
How are you? Busy? Me too. This month, I've a couple of useful things which won't take much time.
Project Management
Around ten days ago ago, I made it to the Millenium Dome in London, UK, at long last. I use the Dome as a great illustration of project success (or not) as it came in on time, to budget and on scope. But it was initially a dismal failure.
The Dome has now reinvented itself as the O2 arena, and it was the site of PMI's celebration of International Project Management Day. I was there, of course, and took along my newest gadget and here's the result: afive minute summary in video form.
Business Anaysis
If you are a business analyst, or work with business analysts, or requirements or change, you have a treat in store. This week (and next), I'm hosting an international, virtual summit. Have a look here.
It's easy to join in via the web from wherever you are and we have almost a thousand people registered.
The theme of the Summit is 'The Business Analyst working with ...' and the topics include:
- Groups of stakeholders (Penny Pullan),
- The system (Emma Langman),
- The Project Manager (Suzanne Robertson),
- User Experience (Darius Kumana),
- People going through change (Brian Adamson),
- Power and Politics (Rob Brown),
- Technical Teams (Davina Hesmer)
- The Future (Nancy Nee).
There's a practical day to finish the summit, with Richard Newbould and others speaking.
Feedback from last year's BA Summit included:
- Excellent concept brilliantly put together;
- FANTASTIC;
- a really useful and important event for the business analysis community;
- a great way to learn and hear the opinions of others, as I can do it when it's convenient to me;
- I loved the flexibility of being able to login anytime during the day to hear the interviews;
- I liked hearing the views of where things are going and what techniques are used;
- A great summit. I feel quite invigorated!
- I thought the pace and lengths of each of the sessions were pitched just right, allowing me to take the discussions on-board without feeling 'swamped' at any point. I think it was very helpful. Thanks for a great series of talks;
- It's a great format and good supplement to other knowledge gathering opportunities. I am a fairly experienced BA, but I always find opportunities to listen to other's perspectives very helpful;
- Excellent presentation and quality speakers;
- Excellent summit with a broad range of topics and lots of valuable learning points.
This year, each session will be available for you to listen at the time of day that suits you best, wherever in the world you might be. For details on how to register so you can listen to the interviews and participate in the Summit click here
Regards,
Penny
If you're in or near Oxford, UK, on 1st December, it would be
great to see you at an APM event on Facilitating Risk Management
Dr Penny Pullan
Director, Making Projects Work Ltd
Telephone (Direct):+44 (01509 821691
Reception: +44 (0)1509 808360
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News:
Penny's book 'A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management', co-authored with Ruth Murray-Webster, is doing well.
It still has 4 1/2 stars on Amazon after more reviews.Here's a comment we received this week:
"I have recently been given the responsibility of facilitating Risk
Management within our organisation and in doing some background reading have come across your book with Ruth Murray-Webster 'A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management' which I have found really useful."
If you already have the book, you are entitled to a whole series of
audios on facilitating risk here
If you haven't, and would like it, you can buy it here:
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