Category: ElephantPM
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The difference between “policy” and “strategy”
I am writing a book on project management (ElephantPM) and I have been looking for a succinct explanation of the difference between “policy” and “strategy”. The project management function itself is operational (project managers have line managers and do the same thing everyday) and is governed by the organization’s Project Management Policy. However, projects themselves…
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Leaner Ries’ Pieces and Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Last night I went to TechHub to see Eric Ries coach 4 start-ups in lean start-up thinking. Eric (32) is a brilliant and inspirational speaker. He had his own successful start-up and then spent a lot of time thinking about why it was successful and following a scientific process of hypothesis – experiment – measurement…
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ElephantPM and lean project management
My core customers are SMEs who are facing organisational challenges arising from growth. One of the challenges that I face is that many SMEs regard project managers in the same way they do dentists – a necessary expense to be incurred when the pain is too great. This makes for difficulties because project management is…
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2011 a year of blog posts
The nice people at WordPress have kindly done a report on this blog. I seem to have made about 80 posts and received 6500 page views. Should you like to know more feel free to click the annual report. https://blog.jamesbayley.com/2011/annual-report/
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How to price software products – think brand
I recently gave a presentation to the UKCFUG entitled “How to make and sell software products”. This talk was sponsored by Fog Creek because I offer training in the UK and Europe for FogBugz and Kiln. I thought I would write a bit more about software pricing and then I found that Joel Spolsky of…
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ElephantPM is now on Twitter
You can now follow me on Twitter @ElephantPM. In a quirk of self referential fate this blog posting will now be syndicated on Twitter.
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“Advice needed – how to persue one’s venture” on the London Android mailing list
Richard Green made an interesting post to the London Android User Group mailing list. Advice needed – how to persue one’s venture: – The London Android Group – Londroid (London, England) – Meetup. This got some great replies that I recommend reading to anyone who is interested in Smartphone development or similar start-ups. Here I…
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Project Management Joke
Q. What’s the difference between a project management methodologist and a terrorist? A. You can negotiate with a terrorist.
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Doctor-IT creates ElephantPM brand
Doctor-IT has created the ElephantPM brand to market its project management services. ElephantPM nows offers FogBugz and Kiln (Mercurial) installation and training in addition to hands on project management. Request to readers: To get ElephantPM into the Google index I would be very grateful if you could mention http://www.elephantpm.com in your blog or on your…
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A week in the life of a development team manager – in song
For many years I was a development team manager. I recently heard Flanders and Swann’s “The gas man cometh” and as a tribute to them and all software development teams everywhere, I composed this little ditty. ‘Twas on a Monday morning the coder came to call. The programme wouldn’t run – it wouldn’t work at…
Dr James Bayley 