Categories: Business and Change, Thoughts Tags: , gesellschaft, mba, oubs
I thought now would be a good time to have a brief look back at the year 2010, from my personal perspective. It was fairly interesting, as I started my own business! So far I haven’t regretted this step for one second. I really enjoy working with my customers, plus it allowed me to find [...]
Categories: Events, Project Mgt., Thoughts Tags: , conference, pm-forum, pmo, portfolio, project management
I’m just sitting on the train back home, looking back at the ‘27th International German Project Management Forum’ which I had the pleasure to attend in the past two days. (I know, what on earth is an international German conference?? Well, in the German mind, it’s a conference with 95% German speakers and a touch [...]
Categories: Blog, Thoughts Tags: , gesellschaft, privat
Heute zur Abwechslung mal wieder ein deutscher Beitrag, und in eher privater Sache. In der Hoffnung auf eine positive Überraschung (die natürlich ausgeblieben ist!) habe ich gerade ins Fernsehprogramm geguckt. Dabei habe ich ungläubig folgendes bei RTL2 gefunden: Frisch nach dem Frühstück geht es los mit den “Feuerspringern”, zur Verdauung nach dem Mittag dann “Ebola”, [...]
Categories: Tekkie Stuff, Thoughts Tags: , blog, customization, theme, web design, wordpress
Phew, there it is eventually – my new website! Well, it is really my good old wordpress blog extended (R.I.P. www.projectzone.wordpress.com). Please remove your old bookmarks and subscribe to the new RSS feed. Hope you’ll enjoy it. It was quite a bit of fun to do some form of coding again, after a long long [...]
Categories: MBA Studies, Thoughts Tags: , b821, mba, openoffice
Hi there, in case you wondered… I’m still alive! The last weeks were just really busy, as I had the first ugly workload peak in my personal little ‘Being a working mum and studying as well’ experiment ;) Besides getting up to speed with my customer’s team (which is working out great now), I had [...]
Categories: Blog, MBA Studies, Thoughts Tags: , b821, mba, oubs
On May 1, my next course at the Open University Business School (OUBS) started officially. It is called ‘B821 – Financial Strategy’ and is one of the ‘electives’ of stage 2 of the studies towards the MBA degree. I am about half way through my MBA program now, with two 6-months electives (one of which [...]
Categories: Blog, Books & Papers, Tekkie Stuff, Thoughts Tags: , drm, iphone, prince2, prince2 2009
So I bought this heavily DRM-restricted Prince2 2009 PDF for roughly 100 EUR. It is easy to read on the laptop. So far, so good. I didn’t try printing it yet. Now I thought, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to read it on my iPhone, too? This way I could look things up [...]
Categories: Blog, Thoughts Tags: , impress
Ok … today I have to confess something. After many years of using office software I discovered that a supposedly common function totally went under my radar. Here’s the mystery: You can actually HIDE slides in StarOffice Impress and Powerpoint. Ummmm. So far slides were rather binary to me: On or off (deleted). So there’s [...]
Categories: Blog, Business and Change, Project Mgt., Thoughts Tags: , pm role
I had an interesting discussion last week again about the changing role of Project Managers. Quite timely, PMI posted a relevant article in their current PM Passport (‘The Next Generation of Project Managers’). So what are the distinguishing qualities of the New PM? I’d say: Collaborative/participative rather than autocratic leadership style Understanding and appreciation of [...]
Categories: Blog, Books & Papers, Business and Change, Thoughts Tags: , cebit, trends
As promised (better late than never), a few more thoughts from the presentation of the results of the ‘IT Studie 2010′ at the Cebit. The study involved about 280 mid-size (min of 200m EUR yearly turnover) to large companies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. (see my first Cebit post here) I could not find the [...]
