Project managers are in a unique position of having to digest, direct, store, and apply vast amounts of information from potentially overwhelming amounts of sources: things to be done or monitored, plans, things that must be remembered or learned, important lessons and advice, as well as their own thoughts, ideas and intuitions.
Many of us will have noticed that bottling these things in our brains is not ideal and will likely be forgotten, and as such, we all have Personal Information Management (PIM) systems in place to help us: anything from simple post-it notes and notebooks, to complex digital note-taking systems.
Despite our PIM systems being cornerstones of our professional lives that help us stay focused on what’s important, do what needs to be done, and prevent us from being overwhelmed, they are very seldom spoken about: most of us are left to pull our own systems together from scratch with varying degrees of success.
The speaker would like to argue that in order to deal with the fallibility of our own human brains, and lead a more efficient, stress-free professional life, we should actively seek to streamline our PIM systems with the latest tools and techniques, and to look at how best to apply them to project management. The speaker also wants to argue the case for building up your PIM system – your “second brain”.
Will Farquharson is a computer science graduate from Scotland. He has
spent his entire career in software, starting as a programmer with an Aberdeen-based company called Petrotechnics at the age of 19 and sticking with them throughout their acquisition by Sphera. Whilst he very much enjoyed having a technical career, his strong abilities to work closely with people, communicate, think clearly and stay organized quickly took him into leadership roles such as scrum team leadership and then engineering management.
Through these roles, he worked on projects with colleagues affiliated with PMI, and he was eventually mentored and convinced to make the leap to become a project manager and attain his PMP in 2019.
Nowadays, he works remotely from Thailand, managing various internal and external software development projects, leaning on over 15 years of experience with various software development methodologies, defining and improving internal software construction processes, and creating and leading productive software development teams.
He has a particular passion for using new tools and technology to keep organized, tighten collaboration, and communicate with levels of clarity that his colleagues and stakeholders have come to appreciate. He also enjoys: learning Thai (intermediate level), programming, computer games, computer hardware, running, swimming, and meditation.
A Project Manager’s Second Brain – Applying Personal Information Management Techniques
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Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Time: 18:00 – 20:30
Fees: 500 THB for members; 700 THB for non-members
Location: Novotel Bangkok Sukhumvit Soi 20 and Virtually Via Zoom
PDUs: 1 Ways of Working PDU, 1 Power Skills PDU
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EVENT INFO :
- Speaker:Will Farquharson
- Start Date:November 16, 2022
- Start Time:6:00pm
- End Date:November 16, 2022
- End Time:8:30pm
- Location:Novotel Hotel 19/9 Sukhumvit 20 Alley, Khwaeng Khlong Toei, Klongton Bangkok 10110
- Website:pmithai.org
- Organizer:PMI Thailand