The Project Team (funny)

By On February 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Diary, Project Management

A funny outline of the project team from Mr Me blog

Project Manager is a Person who thinks nine Women can deliver a baby in One month Developer is a Person who thinks it will take 18 months to deliver a Baby. Onsite Coordinator is one who thinks single Woman can deliver nine babies [...]

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Conversations with Accidental PMs – Goals and Objectives

By On November 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Change Management, Diary, Lessons Learned

Over the past week many of the conversations have been with accidental project managers who are struggling with projects. Mainly as a result of them accepting projects that are focused on achieving organisational goals. In most cases doomed for failure as there are either far to many objectives or far to few that are badly [...]

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Control and Prespective

By On September 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Getting Things Done, Personal Effectiveness, Project Management

One of the key points from the talk by David Allen yesterday was about maintaining Control and Perspective. Control through the five phases of workflow and planning and perspective through working with the horizons of focus.

This is something I have been continually used to get a realistic picture of my world and clarity [...]

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David Allen at the LBF

By On September 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Getting Things Done, Personal Effectiveness, Project Management

I have just been to the LBF David Allan seminar and found it to be extremely useful in focusing on the key concepts and questions to ask rather than going in to detail on the mechanics of GTD.

One of the key points were that 95% of improvment is systematic.

I will think this over [...]

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DADAPP

By On October 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Diary, IT Project Management, Management Information System, Software Development, User Experience

Today sees the launch of DADAPP an application to organise, index and share files with any one or no one. The team I work with worked on the Photo element of this application and We/I have some ideas to develop other applications on top.

Watch this video of the DAD staff.

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BCS-JCF September 2010 – An Evolutionary Cross Roads

By On September 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Cloud Computing, Diary, Future Thinking, Institute of Consulting, Project Management, SymetrIQ

Last week I was asked to give a talk on behave of the JCF (joint Consulting Forum) this was to look at the changes in the current market and the effect it would have on the conventional IT department. BCS-JCF September 2010

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A Intro to Risk Management

By On June 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Prince2, Project Management, Risk Managment

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

 

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Agile Product Development

By On May 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Agile, Diary, Project Management, Software Development

The Slides from my recent presentation to the BNS on Agile Product Development.

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Mary & Tom Poppendieck – Failure Cost

By On May 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Agile, Lean, Project Management, Software Development

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)

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Customer Focus

By On May 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Diary, Lessons Learned, User Experience

 

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 [...]

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