The Sunday Lunch Project

So what is this number and how cannot help? Try this one 155274263153. Still not sure? The first one is the first Monday in each month for 2017, and the second? Correct! The same for 2018. So what use is that? Well if you learn this number (or keep a note of it handy) and know the number of days in a month* you can easily work out the dates of any day in any month for that year without needing to refer to a calendar. So when you are stood in front of your whiteboard, marker in hand, with your team trying to work out those pesky milestone dates, BOOM! you can quickly work it out. *If you can't remember the song use your knuckles take a look here . Have a marvellous New Year's Eve and a productive 2017. Nige The Sunday Lunch PM

Wishing all of your a fabulous Christmas

So whilst I have moaned about Black Friday having no relevance to anyone else people in the US it appears to have become a global sale period, so it you can't beat join em!!! Free copy of When I Were a Project Manager starting Friday :-)

An interesting sounding event well worth a look. https://www.picatic.com/THENEWSOCIALPROJECTWORLD

Well at the beginning of the year I promised a new publication, mmmmmm not progressed too well. The target was March and it was a collaboration. Both of us taken over by our day jobs and a little concern about copyright stuff. So I have decided you finish off the bits that I had done and publish as a part works............. FOR FREE.  Yes! For free :-). End of October is my target so keep you eyes open and be ready to smile oh and groan. See you soon Nige The Sunday Lunch PM

Brilliant! I passed my Professional Scrum Master 1 exam. Aren't exams brilliant? Eh? No? I am not sure if it is my age or the difficulty of the exams but the last two exams, APMP was the other one, have been the most stressful have had, I was right up to the wire time wise, did not get a chance the review all my bookmarked questions and in the APMP I did not answer all parts of all 10 questions.  Maybe I am a bit more invested in getting the result because I value my time more than I did when I was younger. Anyway here are the tools I used Two day training course for QA Training, really good grounding in the Scrum principles and as it was a instructor lead course the real life experience from the other attendees allowed you to put the framework in context. Here's a link to their course Audio version of the Scrum guide, with an hours drive for me it is idea prep. Here's a link Practice assessments - I took them till I got near a 100% as recommended by a collea

To celebrate a sunny day in the UK  I am making When I Were a Project Manager free for one day only on the 19th July. Grab a free copy and let me know what you think. http://amzn.to/23DIFjI Thanks Nige