Hi all,

sorry but we've had to cancel the 2 June event due to lack of interest. It could be due to the Queen's Jubilee the next day, or that many places also have the following Monday off so it's a long weekend. In any case, only a small number have expressed an interest and they're all from the same place so we'll not have the useful sharing of differ

ent experiences.

We'll save our ideas and stories until October or November and run the event then. If you were hoping to come and want to know when the next one is then, just get in touch via the 'Contact' page, and I'll add you to the mailing list to let you know when the next event is.

I covered my reasons for PM Camp Aberdeen last year. They were briefly that

• there is a need for an event for project managers to share ideas and experiences
• this is not just about software development projects, but for all project managers
• this is for beginners as well as experienced project managers.

All of these ideas still hold true. We still need to have events for project managers to share stories of what is working and what is not working.

While there is the traditional approach, as we saw at the last event in November, there was a growing interest in the agile approach, which was new to some people. This suggests that the format we used last time will still work fine for the day again:

The day should have a mixture of proposed talks that are selected by a small group of willing volunteers for the morning, followed by a round of 3 minute long lightning talks on whatever people wanted to highlight. The lightning talks could be used to ‘recruit’ people for the open space topics that followed later. Using this format participants could volunteer a longer ’solo’ talk on their topic, and others would have a chance to raise the issues of concern to them too.

Topics that pe

ople might want to talk about could be:

* agile versus traditional projects

* beyond budgeting aspects for projects

* organised versus self-organising teams

* planning versus unfolding events

The day could look like this:

gather for coffee and registration 9:30-10

two parallel talks 10-10:30

coffee till 10:45

two parallel talks 10:45-11:15

coffee till 11:30

two parallel talks 11:30-12

lunch 12-13:00

lightning talks 13:00-13:30 for anyone to talk on a topic for 3 minutes

open space proposals 13:30-14:00

14:15-15:00 first rounds of two/three parallel open spaces

coffee till 15:15

15:15-16:00 second round of two/three open spaces

coffee till 16:15

16:15-17:00 third round of two/three open spaces

17:00-17:15 concluding remarks

What happens next

Get in touch with me via comments below, so I know what people are thinking, or get in touch via email or Twitter @scharlau and let me know.

First, am I right, or wrong about the ideas? Or is there something which I've perhaps overlooked?

Second, would you like to contribute a presentation in the morning?

Third, would you or your company like to help sponsor the event? The more sponsorship we have, the more we can do on the day.

Fourth, go register for the event at http://pmcampaberdeenjune2012.eventbrite.co.uk/

Hello all,

this is just a brief note to point out that the second PM Camp Aberdeen will be taking place on Saturday, 2 June 2012 at the University of Aberdeen. The exact details will follow. But you now have a date to put in your diary.

The cheap cialis online.ac.uk/~csc228/blog/?p=300″>first PM Camp Aberdeen was run last November and it was decided then that we should have another one sooner rather than later. Now is the time. Get yourself ready for another round of interesting stories and sharing of experiences.

Bruce