15 posts from: Patrick Mayfield
PRINCE2 for the Project Executive
(Indexed 2006-12-05):
Technorati tags: PRINCE2, Books, Project management, Executive My colleague, John Edmonds, writes: Theres a great little booklet just out called PRINCE2 for the Project Executive. Published by the TSO this actually finds its way to the UK from Holland, where...
The Dispensable Leader
(Indexed 2006-11-30):
You will have noticed the dearth of material from me over the past few weeks. The reason is that I have been ill with viral laryngitis. It has lowered my energy levels and is taking a long time to get...
The Almost Impossible Dream
(Indexed 2006-11-08):
Technorati tags: Vision, Leadership, Stakeholder engagement Yesterday, I was taking a group of clients through our Engaging Your Project Stakeholders Workshop and we were discussing Vision as a crucial piece of collateral in the campaign to win over support for...
MSP Bibliography Updated
(Indexed 2006-10-14):
Technorati tags: program management, programme management, benefits realisation, change management, project management, books, bibliography, managing successful programmes This is my latest updated reading list for people wanting to study further with MSP: For MSP in general:Programme Management based on MSPby...
Stakeholder Management and Leadership
(Indexed 2006-09-29):
The Project Management Specialist Group (known as PROMS-G) of the British Computer Society, have asked me to speak on this to launch their Autumn School on Stakeholder Management, on Tuesday evening, 3rd October, just off the Strand in London (apparently...
Strategy & Culture
(Indexed 2006-08-08):
Its one of those strong themes that is being amplified for me at the moment. Simplistic management thinking disregards soft stuff like culture. Usually this is because it is too indefinable, too intangible, because it doesnt fit easily with their...
Beyond Crayons: Turning systems models into projects
(Indexed 2006-07-24):
My good friend Nick Duffill has done something interesting with my recent article on Outcome Relationship Models in his post Beyond Crayons: Turning systems models into projects. In brief, what Nick has done has been to convert my example into...
MSP Refresh
(Indexed 2006-07-07):
OGC have a rolling programme to refresh their best practice titles. These include PRINCE2 (Managing Successful Projects), M_o_R (Management of Risk), ITIL(r) and, of course, MSP (Managing Successful Programmes). Since I began coaching in the MSP Framework my passion for...
A Peek into the Learning Experience
(Indexed 2006-06-30):
Heres a marketing conundrum: my company, Pearce Mayfield, offers training in project and programme management, particularly accredited courses in the PRINCE2, Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) and Change Management. How, then, do we differentiate ourselves from other, ostensibly competent competitors? Our...
Principles of Change Management
(Indexed 2006-06-08):
Monday and Tuesday this week found me along with representatives of three other training organisations being inducted into APM Groups new Principles of Change Management learning solutions. (It would have been easier for me to have written training courses than...
Cardiff University's Life Long Learning Unit
(Indexed 2006-03-11):
Heres a very elegant graphic of our core PRINCE2, MSP and Basic Project Management course offerings, this time developed by one of our partners: Cardiff Universitys Centre for Life Long Learning . It shows how the BPM, PRINCE2 and MSP...
What Quality Managers Hate About Projects
(Indexed 2006-01-20):
Last night I found myself speaking to a group of about 38 people at a branch meeting of the Institute of Quality Assurancein Basingstoke. Id been invited to speak on the virtues of PRINCE2, so I talked about its genesis....
Has PRINCE2 reached its Tipping Point?
(Indexed 2006-01-13):
Malcolm Gladwell has well and truly established Tipping Point as a management term; how a product or innovation takes off, and how little things can make all the difference. Richard Pharro, Managing Director of APM Group, the accrediting body for...
Ivan the Teamworker
(Indexed 2006-01-12):
Pete Radcliffe, my colleague and Chief Executive of Pearce Mayfield, sent me this today: I like it! It reminds me of the time when I was recruiting a COBOL programmer and when I asked this school-leaver what his ambitions were,...
The Project Manager's Most Important Word
(Indexed 2006-01-07):
Heres a great quote from St Frances de Sales that I picked up in David Allens blog: The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks, and...