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Project Managers - What do you do all day?

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How often do you get a question like that from a friend or a family member, "What is it you do again?" or " What do you do when you go to work daddy?".  If you say "I am a project manager" these days it will fill their heads with visions of The Apprentice TV Show candidates shouting "I am the PM do as I say!", or a man in a hard hat talking to Kevin McCloud on Grand Designs about something is late. I do not have a solution to this dilemma and there are probably a hundred blog posts talks about how to talk to people about being a Project Manager. A quick google for " explaining what a project manager does" presents details of roles and responsibilities not what happens. What I have got is something, whilst dramatised is a little insight into a possible day of a project manager. Last night I watch the film called Locke starring Tom Hardy, now I don't want to give away the plot as you may want to watch it, and I do recommend watch

The Robots are Coming : Life Automation Project : Part 1

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Over the past 12 months or so I have been conducting various experiments with automation in work and at home and thought I would share with you how they have been going and some of the errors I have made. Automation and artificial intelligence are not new things, think about the simple video recorder or the robots in factories, CNC machines, whilst they only go so  far they are part of the story, and it even goes back further than that,  as can be seen in this documentary from many years ago. So my experience of automating my life includes the following tools IFTTT service (if this then that) Microsoft Outlook rules toodledo.com & app Amazon Echo My mobile phones Trello and its app Phase 1 - Email Automation in the Office My first goal was to try to manage the email traffic that I had in my inbox and help me prioritise which ones to look at, this is difficult to do unless you open the email and then decide, which burns up valuable time.  When l

Project Management : The Sketches - Sign up for free book

Hello I am planning to have my next book, Project Management : The Sketches ready before the end of the year, I was originally planning June but life got in the way, or I let it get in the way. If you sign up to my mailing list from the link below you will have an early draft content and an exclusive pre-release copy for free, all I ask is some feedback. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1678615065524605&id=161569190562541 Thanks Nige The Sunday Lunch PM

When I Were a Project Manager - Biggest sales day yet

When I Were a Project Manager still FREE So yesterday was my biggest sales day since When I Were a Project Manager became free on all platforms Many thanks to all of you who have downloaded it and I hope you have enjoyed the book. If you did or did not enjoy it let me know, I would love to hear from you. I you have not yet grabbed your copy, I know you are just plucking up the courage, or lost the link or were washing your hair.  Hey that's OK here is the link again :-). http://thesundaylunchproject.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/when-i-were-project-manager-now-free.html Speak soon Nige

When I Were a Project Manager now FREE!

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When I Were a Project Manager now FREE! It gives me great pressure to announce that When I Were a Project Manager is now available for free on the following platforms. Grab your copy and tell you r friends. To get future updates of up and c oming books and exclusive offers sign up to The Sunday Lunch Project mailing list here . All the Best, Nigel