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Brilliant use of a QR Code on a Resume

Bert — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:00:23 +0000

Check out this content-rich resume by French student Victor Petit. First I was thinking, “why does he indicate a different scanning direction like that with the iPhone outline? that’s not right”, but the surprise blew me away.

I’d probably hire him instantly after getting that resume on my desk. A trick such as this makes your curriculum vitae really stick out; being original can work wonders for your career.

Inspirational stuff!

Don’t Compromise on the Good Part

Bert — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:46:07 +0000

There are 3 parameters everybody wants in any project.
The project has to be:

Cheap
Fast
Good

The golden rule is you can only have 2.

A fast & cheap project is rarely gonna be good.
A fast & good project isn’t cheap.
And a cheap good project won’t be fast.

So please choose whether you want it cheap, or fast.
Don’t compromise on the good part.

a Hoss Gifford quote – via Claudio Capodifoglia

Project Management Inspiration on Twitter

Bert — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:48:01 +0000

I like Twitter you can follow me if you want, it’s a place where I micro-blog about just about anything that’s on my mind and I announce my new posts there as well.

There’s a site called Twittgroups that parses all the tweets for group tokens, words that start with a hash (#) character. One of the groups I like is “Project Managers on Twitter” (#pmot) for instance.

Here are a few tweeters I follow, check ‘em out, they are a cool bunch

Project Management related (at times Agile, PMI or PMP):

Some of my personal PM friends (mostly Dutch):

Inspirational tweeters:

Don’t forget Twitter search, it’s great if you want to keep up-to-date about what people are tweeting about a specific subject, the service creates RSS feeds of a search so you don’t have to come back to the site. I heartily recommend it.

By the way, please comment should I’ve missed you in the lists!

Get Your PM Inspiration on the Web

Bert — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:05:39 +0000

I’ve been reading a lot of blogs on project management, in the sidebar on this site you can find them under links. The ones I absolutely like best and love to read are:

The Struggling Manager has some really cool articles about efficient communication and I bet Rob Redmont – the author – writes just like he talks to people. Good advice, over and over.

PM Hut makes up for it’s ugly design (it’s true) with a high posting rate and a lot of very good authors who probably also have their own blogs somewhere.

My head of project office told me about Project Smart when we where talking about PMI training. It’s a great training resource and the post frequency is just right.

I use Google Reader to keep up to date with the latest and greatest, if you haven’t tried it yet you should, it saves you time and for that it totally rocks.