July 18th, 2010 by paul mayes
In preparing an answer to a query, I was pleased to find a web version of a Canadian paper I have used a lot in the past. “Building successful commercialisation teams” by Large, Belinko and Kalligatsi looked at Canadian government lab projects and provides a lot of thought provoking and practical ideas for evaluating success that can be applied to learning and teaching projects.
Our house moves takes place tomorrow and Tuesday and it will be about 7 days before broadband connection is restored. I will try to use my iPhone but if this is not successful then normal blogging will resume after 27th July. Queries or comments can, as always, be e-mailed to paul.mayes@gmail.com
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July 7th, 2010 by paul mayes
I have been asked for recommendations for material on project charters in addition to those I posted back in March.
There is an excellent Word document about planning and charters in a learning community by Catherine Gynn of Ohio State (based on pcubed.com material) downloadable at https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/21/1/ProjectPlan_Gynn_OLN.doc
On a personal note, yesterday we sold our house here in the North East of England and we move to Cheshire in two weeks. With the packing of my home office equipment I was pleased to be able to do this blog post on my netbook 
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July 4th, 2010 by paul mayes
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June 30th, 2010 by paul mayes
The two pieces of background reading worked very well for our online discussion yesterday on benefits realisation planning. They can be found at http://www.pmis.co.uk/benefits_realisation.htm and http://www.isip.nhs.uk/library/archive/strategyandbenefits/ISIP_strategy_and_benefits_step3.pdf
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June 26th, 2010 by paul mayes
The 2009 paper “How to measure innovation in eLearning : The i-AFIEL methodology” by Lucilla Crosta and Victor Prieto was tremendously interesting in its discussion of how to assess the innovativeness of a project. An ex-colleague and I are adapting Crosta and Prieto’s ideas to include some innovativeness measures along with impact and benefit measures
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June 21st, 2010 by paul mayes
An colleague has recommended the University of Technology Sydney project management website as one to add the list of sites I’ve previously highlighted. As with the other recommended websites, there is a very useful selection of templates
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June 18th, 2010 by paul mayes
Following on from another query after yesterday’s post, I can strongly recommend a 2009 conference paper by Mark Steiner, President of mark steiner, inc as a background source for anyone starting a specifically e-learning project
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June 17th, 2010 by paul mayes
Responding to a query last night made me go back to one of the best blog posts I’ve ever used. I was pleased to see that the 2006 post by Lou Russell that looks at how e-learning projects are different from other learning projects has been archived at http://www.astd.org/LC/2006/0806_russell.htm This is well worth printing out and keeping
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June 16th, 2010 by paul mayes
I’ve found the work done by the Saffron Interactive company (who specialise in creating bespoke training solutions and business communications) to be very useful in the past. Their blog (which often includes “5 Top Tips….” posts) is well worth adding to your reading but their Slideshare presentation on project initiation templates in learning worked especially well this week in provoking discussion in our community of practice.
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June 13th, 2010 by paul mayes
Paul Galardi’s Project Management Newsletter Volume 4 (on managing communications) has recently arrived in my e-mail box. The web version at http://www.projectmanagers.net/profiles/blogs/managing-communications-61110 includes Paul’s contact details and the Newsletter is well worth subscribing to
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