Project Management

A Intro to Risk Management

Posted by Ian Burgess on June 27, 2010 at 10:23 pm

An interesting introduction to risk management I found when I was looking for some material.  

Agile Product Development

Posted by Ian Burgess on May 29, 2010 at 1:19 pm

The Slides from my recent presentation to the BNS on Agile Product Development. Agile Product Development View more presentations from ianburgess.

Mary & Tom Poppendieck – Failure Cost

Posted by Ian Burgess on May 23, 2010 at 5:07 pm

This week I attended a course organised by Lean Data Solution which covered the content of much of the books and helped to refocus some of the practices. … Over the two days we covered several topics: Systems Thinking Technical Excellence Great People Reliable Delivery Relentless Improvement The Journey (change and mental models)

Customer Focus

Posted by Ian Burgess on May 1, 2010 at 7:13 am

  This week we meet with a Andy and Simon from CWL systems, on the outside they seem a very focused IT consulting and implementation shop, what completely changed my view of this was the single slide displayed on a screen in their office:  Customers are not dependent on us – We are dependent on [...]

The Drowning Director

Posted by Ian Burgess on April 11, 2010 at 2:15 pm
BCS The Charterd Institute for IT

I have been asked to Speak at the BCS Consultancy group event on the 12th of May the event is entitled “The Drowning Director”. The Main Speaker is Geoff Codd author of the The Drowning Director and a Fellow of the BCS.

Prince2 Process Outline

Posted by Ian Burgess on March 22, 2010 at 12:02 am
Prince2 2009 Process Outline

Prince2 is made up of 7 Processes and 7 Themes, projects run under Prince2 use all the processes.  The key to successful use of the process model is to look at the extent and detail to which each process is used. It is important that all processes are used in every project but only to the [...]

Burndown Charts

Posted by Ian Burgess on February 14, 2010 at 5:22 pm
Burndown in Excel

In a project most of the stake-holders are only interested in the amount of work completed and if things are on track. In a Agile/SCRUM environment the best tool for showing this is the burn down chart. These are extremely simple to create with any Spreadsheet software, I commonly use both Excel and Google Docs [...]

RationalPlan Review

Posted by Ian Burgess on January 4, 2010 at 11:20 pm

Some time ago I was asked to try and review RationalPlan by Tiberiu Ghioca. There are two versions of the application Single Project and Multi Project. The version I used was the Multi Project Version which retails for around $98 per user (compare this to MS Project more about that later). The one obvious advantage along [...]

Using Rewards to Motivate Staff

Posted by Ian Burgess on December 28, 2009 at 9:14 pm

Over the last few months I have been dealing with issues on how to motivate staff and found this really interesting talk from TED by Dan Pink (who happens to be Al Gore’s speech writer). He touches on practices such as Result only Work Environments definitely food for thought. Starting with a fact that social [...]

Timothy Brown – Innovation Through Design Thinking

Posted by Ian Burgess on November 22, 2009 at 2:36 pm

Tim Brown is the current CEO of IDEO and the author of the book Change By Design which has helped deepen my understanding of the process of innovation. My Introduction to his thinking came from this presentation from MIT-World.