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554 days ago
by the way, yesterday I attended a PMI event in London with Merill Lynch (financial svcs company). It was really good. The event was about developing and attracting Senior Project Management Talent. According to them, Project Management as an industry is approaching a crossroads, either it will become a fully recognised discipline and department within companies and even gain chartered status like Chartered Accountants etc. On the other hand it could fizzle out and disappear as everybodys current roles will adapt to include Project Management skills and tools as a must have. I guess this is similar to what Kerzner wrote in his book (Applied PM a systems approach) when describing different companies' approaches to incorporating Project Management, and he mentioned stuff like the Matrix structure etc. There was a chap from IBM who is a Project "Fixer". He goes to companies which have failing projects (particularly SAP ones) and turns them around. ...
667 days ago
After my Theory test on Saturday, I went home and called a number of Motorcycle schools to book a CBT for the following day (Sun 20th). Everywhere was fully booked, so I asked them to give me a call in case of any cancellations. One school called Getbike (www.getbike.net) called me within a short while and booked me a place for a 9AM start. I paid over the phone and the next morning left nice and early. Get Bike is located across the road from the tube station in Northfields. 9 AM came and a number of students had arrived. We had two instructors, one for the manual gear bikes and one for the automatic gears. We watched a Powerpoint presentation on basics of Motorcycle Clothing, maintenance etc and then watched a short video of a girl who had a bike accident. Some useful info was on motorcycle helmets and how they contain Polystyrene. These are rendered useless if you drop your helmet from above waist height because polystyrene does not go back to its original form. It ...
667 days ago
On Saturday 19th of January I went to Kingston to take the Motorcycle Theory test. The test was scheduled for 8:30 AM and I arrived about 8:00 AM. I had to wait outside where other test candidates slowly started arriving. While waiting, I started practising asking some theory questions with another candidate, this turned out to be useful as there were one or two questions from the Highway Code that neede revising. Eventually the Security Guard of the building ushered us to go upstairs, the lifts were full of people since by now the number of candidates had increased significantly. When you enter the door of the test centre, a man at the desk asks you for your Identification, I gave him my Passport and my Car drivers' License. He then sent me to a chair to wait my turn on the computer. The exam moderator then checked my name on the system and walked me to a computer where i sat and placed the headphones on my head. I went through a small tutorial and then began the ...
865 days ago
Last week I booked my first flight lesson at Headcorn Aerodrome, but sadly my instructor called me to re-schedule due to poor weather. Well, the time came for the newly scheduled lesson and I headed down to Headcorn using my mobile phone's bluetooth connection and my portable bluetooth GPS device. I got to the aerodrome and found my way into the flight school where I found my instructor, Bruce, finishing off with another student (which was cool since I was about 10 minutes late anyway). Bruce came and greeted me and invited me into his office where he conducted some ground school and explained to me the basics of flying including: Lift Ailerons Rudder Flaps etc. Bruce gave me a Headset and then took me out to the airfield where we located our plane, a Cessna 150 Aerobat. This is good for Bruce as he is an expert aerobat. Bruce walked me around the plane and explained to me the external checks. We found the plane needed fuel, so we pushed the plane ...
968 days ago
Shai Agassi resigns from the board of sap, read more about that here. Apparently he was expecting to take over the reigns of SAP this year, but the current CEO was extended till 2009. A number of rumours around this announcement such as Agassi being unhappy about this extension, some say its to do with the Oracle lawsuit. You decide.
