From the monthly archives:

March 2006

Strikes and scope

March 27, 2006

The office is going into emergency mode at the moment in preparation for crippling strikes tomorrow. We’ve received flyers from the unions, an email from HR about how to get to work despite there being only 37% service on some lines. How the RATP have calculated their service that precisely I’m not [...]

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The Gipsy Moth IV project

March 22, 2006

The restoration effort has been a significant project: 28 weeks, 9000 hours. Not bad for a boat bought for £1 and a gin and tonic

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Blogs and budgets

March 13, 2006

So the ITtoolbox blog awards for 2006 have been announced, and none of the winners are from their project management category. Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised, given that they claim to have over 157k blogs and gave out just 6 prizes. Or maybe the people who vote in the awards are more technical [...]

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Fixed date projects are like weddings

March 6, 2006

Some projects are already time-bound when you receive them, and while this way of planning is not the most controlled way to manage a project, it is possible – and I am just about to find out how possible. Suddenly, a project that has been dragging on for a year, and I thought I [...]

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Scope Management presentation at the BCS

March 1, 2006

I will be speaking about Scope Management at the British Computer Society in London on 11 May.
Scope is one of the many bugbears of the project manager, and forms part of the ‘golden triangle’ along with cost and quality. This session will look at why scope management is so important and what project managers can [...]

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