A winning formula?

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance

- baffle them with bullsh*t."

The Six Phases of a Project

You won't find these in RUP, DSDM, Prince 2 etc.....

1. Enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Panic
4. Search for the Guilty
5. Punishment of the innocent
6. Praise and honours for the nonparticipants.

Favourite Sayings #11

I like this one:

"Five out of four people can't do fractions"

Favourite Sayings #10

Attributed to Abraham Maslow (of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Fame):

"A man whose only tool is a hammer tends to treat everything as a nail"

The Six Ps

The six Ps are:

Proper Planning Prevents P*ss Poor Performance

Collaboration & Knowledge Management Software

Project Management can be assisted by having a knowledge management repository so that you can look back at what you learnt last time and have the ability to reuse documents or approaches. There are a number of software solutions but this one , collaborator, is extremely useful and is used at Leeds University to help them run multiple projects and to keep customers in touch with what is going on. It has extensive search capabilities allowing project teams to be rapidly built.

Favourite Sayings #9

"Things are not always as bad as they seem

-they are often worse"

Favourite Sayings #8

"There are many paths to the top of the mountain

- but only one view"

No Problems - Just Opportunities

In that case, I've been working on opportunities all my life!

Program Management - What is it?

this is a link to an article by the Program Management Group defining Program Management. It is in PDF format. for the HTML equivalent click here.

What is your definition?

Favourite Sayings #7

"Consultation is often getting approval for what has already been decided!"

Favourite Sayings #6

"Never interrupt an enemy when he is making a mistake"

APM - Association for Project Management

The Association for Project Management (APM) provides a useful resource for Project Managers together with an accreditation road map for improving your skills. Click here to go to their web site and see what they can offer you in your professional career.

Favourite Sayings #5

Another couple to keep you going:

"Thinking is not the same as knowing"

"Some people never stop to think - others never think to stop"

Favourite Sayings #4

"Don't confuse bad management with fate"

Favourite Sayings #3

A couple of sayings:

"Diplomacy is the art of getting someone else to think like you."

"Discussions are a way of making others see that they are wrong."

Networking Tool #2

Another useful networking tool is Linkedin. This allows you to connect to people, describe your job and role, connect to old colleagues etc. It doesn't have the same level of interaction as eCademy but is very useful for connecting and keeping your connections. There are a number of tools which allow you to synchronise your address book and Linkedin.

On Line Networking

On line networking is becoming more common. eCademy is one of the more interesting ones combining social and business networking and having on line and off line meetings.

British Standards On Line

There is a web site with British Standards on-line click here to go to it.

Favourite Sayings #2

How about:

"What may be done at any time may never be done!"

Favourite Sayings #1

A Commercial Director I once worked with used this phrase quite often:

"Never confuse effort with achievement"

Project Management Quote

I think it was Nigel who told me this one:

"95% of people need to be told what to do, the other 5% are project managers"

I think he had a point there.

Farnborough Projects High Availability WAN Upgrade

Clicking on the header will download a case study of a WAN Upgrade project we were involved with. The document is in PDF format.

Farnborough Projects Programme Office & Global CRM work

Clicking on the header will download a case study in PDF format about a project rescue and Programme Office assignment we were involved in.

Farnborough Projects - Case Study Departmental Reorganisation

Clicking on the header will download a PDF about a Departmental Reorganisation we were involved in.

Farnborough Projects - Case Study Data Cleansing

Clicking on the header will download a case study in PDF format about work undertaken to cleanse close to a million data entries.

Farnborough Projects - Visibility and Resource Management

Clicking on the header will download a case study in PDF format about a deployment of Hydra Manager which helped a company to see all the work that they were involved in.

Farnborough Projects IT Security Rescue

Clicking on the header will download a case study in PDF of a project rescue effort I was involved in.

Farnborough Projects Case Study on Release Management

Clicking the header will download a PDF document about a Release Management Project we worked on.

Farnborough Projects Case Study on Office Moves

I've undertaken a number of office moves on the IT and Construction side as well as the movement of the people itself. the link (click the header) takes you to a brief description of what is needed.