Geek | Manager » Publications http://blog.geekmanager.co.uk Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:42:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New Article Over At 24ways.org http://blog.geekmanager.co.uk/2008/12/16/new-article-over-at-24waysorg/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.geekmanager.co.uk/2008/12/16/new-article-over-at-24waysorg/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:23:36 +0000 Meri http://blog.geekmanager.co.uk/?p=32 I was delighted and honoured to write an article for this year’s 24ways advent calendar. The topic is Project Management, with a bit of a festive analogy used to impart some top tips for keeping projects on track.

Go on over, check it out and let me know what you think!

]]> http://blog.geekmanager.co.uk/2008/12/16/new-article-over-at-24waysorg/feed/ 0 Principles of Project Management http://blog.geekmanager.co.uk/2008/03/26/principles-of-project-management/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.geekmanager.co.uk/2008/03/26/principles-of-project-management/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:20:18 +0000 Meri http://blog.geekmanager.co.uk/2008/03/26/principles-of-project-management/ Principles of Project Management cover I’m pleased to announce that one of my own projects has just come to fruition. My new book, The Principles of Project Management has just been published by SitePoint. It’s a short book aimed at folks like myself who have come from a technical background and are increasingly finding themselves in need of project management skills — whether to officially take that role or to help make the hard work they put in as developers or designers actually mean something, by ensuring the project is delivered properly.

The book was expert reviewed by Kevin Lawver and Drew McLellan who both did an admirable job of ensuring that the content stayed applicable to all sorts of projects and teams, both big and small. They also bravely took on the role of managementese-weeding and survived with remarkably few lasting scars ;-) Drew has written some thoughts on the book on his own blog. I thoroughly enjoyed working with both Drew & Kevin, as well as the team at SitePoint.

If your interest is piqued, then check out The Principles of Project Management book page or download a sample chapter.

In the interests of full disclosure, I would highlight that all the links are affiliate links — i.e. if you buy the book via that link I will both be able to track it and get something back :)

]]> http://blog.geekmanager.co.uk/2008/03/26/principles-of-project-management/feed/ 14 PM Overview on SitePoint.com http://blog.geekmanager.co.uk/2007/06/15/pm-overview-on-sitepointcom/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.geekmanager.co.uk/2007/06/15/pm-overview-on-sitepointcom/#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:32:29 +0000 Meri http://blog.geekmanager.co.uk/2007/06/15/pm-overview-on-sitepointcom/ My first SitePoint article has just been published — Effective Project Management for Web Geeks. For those of you who found this blog because you saw me speaking about Project Management somewhere, it may well sound quite familiar, but I think it’s a nice round-up of some PM basics and the basic toolkit that I recommend everyone get familiar with if they want to keep their projects under control.

Go on over and check it out and let me know what you think!

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