In this July/August edition of the Carnival of Project Management, I thought I’d focus on links related to and from the UK. Here, what with the Jubilee and the Olympics, planning and budget management has never been so prominent in the press.
So here is my roundup of the best project management links on a UK theme.
There’s a project management A-Z of sports terminology on How to Manage a Camel, the blog from Arras People. I like P for Pentathlon: “As this sport is a multi-disciplined athletic event, so too does a project require the handling and perfecting of a wealth of disciplines to meet established goals and come in on time.” You can comment on the blog with your favourite sporting/project terminology for a chance to win a book.
Jo Ann Sweeney writes 12 essential skills for proactive communication on the Commsabilities blog, saying, “Rather than listing skills, which is not that helpful, I suggest instead thinking about the ways they want to connect with their audiences – and then the skills needed to manage these ways.”
Hayley Bishop writes Ensuring cost reduction requirements don't compromise security and compliance, an article on ComputerWorld UK about ensuring cost reductions don’t compromise IT project security.
Cowes Harbour Commission writes Cowes Appoints Olympic Design Champions on the Ventnor Blog about a new project to improve the harbour infrastructure. Charlie Mayes gives his view about the Major Project Leadership Academy in an article called People Make Projects. “What concerns me,” he writes, “about the academy is whether it will actually help candidates develop the ‘above the line’ competence to become successful project and programme managers or directors.”
There’s an interesting opinion piece in the Economist about the newly-announced infrastructure projects to improve the UK railways. In it, author R. B. concludes that, “the projects outlined do little to deal with the hoped-for long-term cost reductions on the railways.”
ProjectSmart.co.uk has The Project Management Guide to: Travelling to Work During the Olympic Games from Simon Buehring. It’s a risk assessment in cartoon form.