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Today is International Project Management day, a day that is:

…intended to encourage project-based organisations worldwide or organisations who utilise project management methodologies to schedule some type of recognition event within their organisations or coordinated locally with others to truly demonstrate appreciation for the achievements of project managers and their teams.

Hug your project manager today! Project managers work to improve your quality of life by helping you work together with your team more effectively!

Happy International Project Management Day 2008!

importantprojects, internationalprojectmanagementday, nptech, projectmanagement

Last week I took the train to Machynlleth, Wales to spend two days talking about Scrum with Tincan, a conscious business specialising in the design, development and hosting of websites for not-for-profit arts organisations (like the National Theatre). And they're also the makers of PHPList!

Tincan have offices in the UK and in Argentina and invited me to talk with them about how they might make their already-Agile development practices more effective by using Scrum on some of their larger and/or more product-based projects. Because their office in Machynlleth is at the southern end of Snowdonia National Park, Francesca came with me so we could spend the weekend hiking in the hills there — highly recommended if you're ever in the area :)

Thanks for having me, Tincan!

agile, importantprojects, nptech, projectmanagement, scrum, tincan, training

Today is November 1st, World Vegan Day, and the start of World Vegan Month!

Happy World Vegan Day and World Vegan Month! Vegan catering for all!

activism, environment, food, green, importantprojects, noanimalproducts, sustainability, vegan, worldveganday2008

Today is November 1st, World Vegan Day, and the start of World Vegan Month! Happy World Vegan Day and World Vegan Month! Vegan catering for all! activism, environment, food, green, importantprojects, noanimalproducts, sustainability, vegan, worldveganday2008... Rob www.importantprojects.com rob@importantprojects.com General

Thanks for coming out to Drupal for NGOs at Development House last night! Those were some great presentations (from Anna Feldman of GreenNet, David Gildeh on the work he did for Ashoka and Thomas Muirhead of Macmillan Cancer Support)!

And speaking of presentations, I'm thinking maybe next month we shouldn't have any presentations — instead, I'm thinking we should run a couple of workshops, or run an open space meeting around how we can really start to benefit from being part of this community we've built over the last few months. Let me think about it some more. Watch for details here and/or on the Drupal UK site!

Happy Halloween!

developmenthouse, drupal, drupalforngos, greennet, importantprojects, opensource, nptech, softwaredevelopment

Thanks for coming out to Drupal for NGOs at Development House last night! Those were some great presentations (from Anna Feldman of GreenNet, David Gildeh on the work he did for Ashoka and Thomas Muirhead of Macmillan Cancer Support)!... Rob www.importantprojects.com rob@importantprojects.com Conferences