A Intro to Risk Management
An interesting introduction to risk management I found when I was looking for some material.
Project Management
Agile Product Development
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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