You might have noticed that I have now put the cover art of my forthcoming book in the sidebar. It wasn’t at all what I was expecting but I loved it straight away. I was under the impression the British Computer Society would use a picture of a helicopter or a telescope or something like that. At least, that’s what my editor and I discussed when I met him at the presentation on Scope Management I gave a while back. Helicopters are a symbol of project management for me. They give you the chance to see the big picture and yet zoom in and land anywhere there’s a problem. That’s what a project manager does – keep an overall view of what’s going on and yet have the ability to concentrate on the detail when something’s not working out.
The photo of the stones, while I love it, is a whole different metaphor. It’s building blocks, fundamentals, creating a stable whole from various bits and bobs. And it’s a balancing act. Managing various stakeholders, constraints and issues to get something perfectly focused, doing exactly what it set out to achieve. Although what a pile of stones is for I don’t know. I’m on holiday (yes, again) shortly and maybe I’ll find a use for piling up stones as a way of killing time on a Tunisian beach.
Anyway, now the cover art is approved hopefully it will filter through to my Amazon entry and make that page look a bit more glam. Then people might want to start buying it!
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