Alec the Geek

Thanks to Kate I found A Girl’s Guide to Project Management, a blog by Elizabeth Harrin, which has some excellent resources. I look forward to trawling through the posts over the next few days. There are even some references to Australian material… :-).

On a separate note, do some women find it easier to be better project managers because they might have better developed social skills than many men? Or is that just sexist claptrap?

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My colleague Simon, who is self confessed suit-compliant human, was pleased to be able to install our Open source product without problems in an hour on our server.

I think this illustrates a trend that has been evident for some time — Open source software is now ready for the mainstream and can be used by anyone. To be sure there are bad examples of the art, however that applies across the whole software industry unfortunatly.

Can world domination be far away? :-).

Mr Angry makes some comments about employing contractors. A few weeks ago I made a presentation at the OSDClub on how to get the greatest benefit from using consultants. i.e. paying project budget for outsides to perform services for you. As it was very much a personal perspective I would be very interested in people’s comments, just click the mind map on the left to see the full size version

What was also interesting from this exercise was that I used the mind map, instead of the usual slides, to present my views and the novel format for the material meet with great approval. The mind map was created with FreeMind