Ian Burgess Wanderings and musings of a project manager and consultant

I have worked in outsourcing for nearly 10 years and the experience has been improved dramatically with the introduction of collaborative software, Skype, online project management tools and more i…

After doing some more research I would recommend looking at the Video left as a comment in Prince2 2009 an earlier post by Frank Turley and also have a look at this video by Dave Litten:  

Since its creation in 1996 Prince has been through 2 incremental changes with the last one being in 2005, these mostly consisted of corrections to the manual and some minor changes. The recent change now known as Prince2 2009 (I lost a bet in the hope it would be called Prince3) represents a major change in [...]

Many times the road to ruin begins with the phrase “I was just thinking we could…..” it at this point that the desire to please coupled with not wanting appear to be unable to cope that Project Manager just agrees without understanding the implications the project.

Today as Institute of Business Consulting (IBC) Chair in Scotland I attended the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) in Glasgow. The event was well attended by the active CMI members in Scotland along with several members of key CMI staff. The opening speech by Derek Little covered the change in leadership and the impending re-branding of [...]

Today in a conversation with Ian Brown and some other we have decided to start a writing a new book, we will be using a blog to develop the content in a collaborative  process. More info to come.

“100 grand spent on half finished software is worth nothing” This statement sums up the problem with conventional long cycle development, In the current commercial environment the ability to change focus and deliver value is more critical than ever. Agile development will allow a company to Having been an advocate of Agile development and project [...]