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Simon Harris commented on Carol Dekkers's group 'Project Success Project'
"Hi Meg I guess you asked your profit question to encourage others to suggest answers to cross-check and maybe broaden collective thinking. To that end I define 'profit' as anything of utility to stakeholders - google Hedonistic…"
Dec 30, 2011
Stacy Goff liked Simon Harris's blog post A musing on the definition of "project"
Aug 6, 2011
Simon Harris replied to Randy Tangco's discussion 'INCREASE INTERACTION'
"Stacy I agre this is a great idea, but Interaction? Its now nearly May! Hey folks anyone have a response for Randy?"
Apr 22, 2011
Simon Harris replied to Olof Molinder's discussion 'Identify key factors for sustainable project management'
"Ed I like your example. In my own projects I've been there too (we substituted hp -ux and oracle for mvs / db2 - least it was a step up from is am and vsam!) In my training activities I see training is often a waste of money. Training is…"
Apr 22, 2011
Simon Harris commented on Carol Dekkers's group 'Project Success Project'
"Carl hi, I support your call for discussion. I'd suggest that for 50ish years we have seen an evolution in PM where a 'specialist' community has taken over the role of delivering change to business as usual use of capital (in all…"
Apr 22, 2011
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Project Success Project

asapm project initiative to explore project success factors beyond the traditional cost and schedule paradigm. We're just getting started - watch this space or email Carol Dekkers (dekkers@qualityplustech.com) for details.See More
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Simon Harris commented on Stacy Goff's group 'EXBO -- Education'
"Would I be right to suppose the members herein debate the important questions the groups header comment implies in some other forum? If that assumption is in error is it that we already live in the best achievable world and thus debate and…"
Apr 22, 2011
Simon Harris commented on Stefan Ondek's group 'PRINCE2'
"Hi OK I certainly respect te rights of people to hold opinions taht differ from mine. Was it Voltaire who said "I disagree with your opinion but would defend to the death your right to hold it"? I woldn't go quiet so far but teh…"
Apr 20, 2011
Deborah H. Stevenson and Simon Harris are now friends
Apr 18, 2011
Simon Harris commented on Stefan Ondek's group 'PRINCE2'
"Hi Kehinde What exams are you studying for? On the networking tools I don,t see how a random dump from Les' tool saves time over a google search. What it does do it make the groups contents human and thus 'family' element slower /…"
Apr 17, 2011
Simon Harris replied to Stacy Goff's discussion 'Demonstrate, Through Research, the Value of PM Certifications, and Correlate Them to Project Success'
"is this thread moving forward with discussion elsewhere? I don't know what the abbreviations above stand for in most cases (could people use the convention of expansion on first use? - please:-)) My opinion would be that training is wasted…"
Apr 17, 2011
Simon Harris left a comment for John Maddalena
"John Hi I talked to Les about a place to put course materials, templates etc on the IPMA Family site. You mentioned this in the "what could IPMA Family do for you?" I just wanted to check if your going to do this or was suggesting…"
Apr 9, 2011
Simon Harris commented on Stefan Ondek's group 'PRINCE2'
"Les, Ive been thoroughtly confused by why their is a wash of snippets with your name attached. I sorta understand if you'r telling me that a auto-trawling tool is dumping the scraps here. I can google p2 anytime I want and get a long list of…"
Apr 6, 2011
Simon Harris replied to John Maddalena's discussion 'Establish an IPMA Technical Library'
"Hi John (and others) I agree with much of what you say, am inspired by some and disagree with some of your points   The inspiring bit is the observation that 95% of project based activity is managed by non-PMs and that a 'bottom-up'…"
Apr 4, 2011
Simon Harris commented on Les Squires's group 'APM -- UK Association for Project Management'
"Hello Miles I meant there hadn't been much discussion recently on anything much. I have to plead ignorant to much about RegPM which I see from Tunde's post is an APM qualification. My though would be that it is categorically stupid that to…"
Apr 2, 2011
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To join the IPMA Family, you must be a member of an IPMA Member Association (MA). What is the name of your MA? Your Nation?
Opps! but my nation is Scotland (which isn't in your country list :(
When did you join IPMA; or, how many years have you been involved with the IPMA Family?
I've wrorked with Stacy for a couple years
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Contributing author to ASAPM newsletter, reviewer or aPro and creator of free for individual use PM oriented training materials
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http://www.logicalmodel.net
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FREE for individual use training courses
free APMG accredited PRINCE2(r) Exam Preperation
free Using Microsoft(r) Project for real including for earned Value
free Project management Intro course
free Project management courses in 1 to 5 day formats
free IT Governance course
free Board Briefing on project management process in 2hr to half day formats
free Crisis an Incident management (help-desk) course
free Estimating skills course
free Software configuration management course
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Actually I rather like trying to advance PM, I did try learning to fly a microlight and haven't full abandonded the idea. I enjoy food and wine and travel - so long as it's not solo travel.
I enjoy brass rubbing but it was easier on the knees 20 years ago, I also enjoy narrow-boating which combines slow travel, good beer, the odd medeaval church and plenty of reading and writing time
What PM Certifications have you earned?
PMP, IPMA-D, P2 (I was an examiner when it was essay), MOR, and CGEIT
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I find most sources other than my own regurgitate the same mistaken ideas. www.isochron.uk has really inspiring ideas but they are not obvious from the web-site.
Beck and Fowler's Planning Extreme Programming is good (and not really about programming). Surfing teh edge of Chaos by Pascale et.al. is great
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A musing on the definition of "project"

Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:30pm 0 Comments

I've seen several debates in this community that I think flow from the fact that current definitions of "project" - as they appear in a variety of sources - don't quite hit the mark. Not a great start for an aspiring profession!

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At 9:47am on March 29, 2011, Stacy Goff said…
Hello Simon, and welcome to the IPMA Family! Thank you for your great articles, for the last several years, and I hope we can also offer the articles and your Master MSProject Class here on the IPMA Family. In addition to forming a new group for some of your outstanding free offers, please also be sure to join the other groups, and to get involved. Especially, be sure to join the asapm group. Thank you, Simon!
 
 
 

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