Archive for the 'Professional butt-wiping AKA project management' Category
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Same spiel, different year
This makes me laugh. In a sad, ironic way.
It also makes me glad that I split when I did, because as demoralized as I was then (along with many of my fellow IT compatriots), I think I’d be suicidal by now.
Levy says they’re “going through a huge transition at the moment.” But it’s been eight [...]
Published by mothergoosemouse on January 26th, 2008 tagged Daring you to disagree, Professional butt-wiping AKA project management, The city that never sleeps | 3 Comments »
There’s much more to us than dipes and wipes
Lindsay at Suburban Turmoil wrote an excellent post yesterday about blogger outreach – and I use that term loosely – by marketing and PR firms. Likewise, Liz weighed in shortly after BlogHer on the same topic, along with several others.
As Kristen commented at It’s Not A Lecture, we talk to marketing and PR firms [...]
Published by mothergoosemouse on October 16th, 2007 tagged Bloggy-linky-meme-y, Inside the Beltway, Professional butt-wiping AKA project management, The city that never sleeps, The wild blue yonder, Who me? | 22 Comments »
My kingdom for a patch cable
Excuse me while I get all geeky on you.
My first big project with my former employer in New York was an office build-out and relocation. The building was so far west that it was practically in New Jersey, and while the neighborhood may call itself Clinton now, if you have to detour around dozens of [...]
Published by mothergoosemouse on March 8th, 2007 tagged Professional butt-wiping AKA project management, The city that never sleeps, Who me? | 12 Comments »
What should a project manager do first day on the job?
The title of this post was a recent Google search phrase that led someone in California to my blog.
What a project manager should do on the first day is pretty much what a project manager should do every day:
1. Read everything you can find – on the network, in hard copy reports, and especially any [...]
Published by mothergoosemouse on February 22nd, 2007 tagged Professional butt-wiping AKA project management | 13 Comments »
Who would have thought?
When I was a kid, I was in a gifted program. It was meant to challenge kids who were bored by the general curriculum. My early years in the program were great. We made puppets and put on a production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”; we held a mock presidential election for the entire elementary [...]
