Should you ever rewrite a large code base?
Here is a very interesting article on whether you should rewrite a large code base. I found it when asking …
Category Archives: Project Management
How to manage work
This article was written in response to a question from a 3rd year Computer Science student and it uses terms …
“The Checklist Manifesto” is a game-changing book
What is it about? The author’s key message is that the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded …
Microsoft Project 2016 and SharePoint Project Web App
I have always found it very difficult to understand Microsoft Project provisioning options. This video makes it very clear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC6wiMEFCEU&list=PLoJ4O8aYHqgAtiXSbleKz0oPZD6bwhrah&index=6 At …
Why is it often more difficult to manage a small project than a large one?
Ian Mitchell asks on Linkedin. I have spent the last 20 years a freelance consultant managing small hi-tech projects in large …
Books on innovation
Continuing my theme of useful books. Here a couple of very valuable books about managing innovation. The Lean Start-up Business …
The philosophy of project management
I think that this book is a very interesting discussion of the essential, as opposed to accidental nature of project …
Books about “Requirements Management”
In the frothy drive to all things “agile” formal requirements management is often forgotten. Requirements management is core to the …
SCRUM, PRINCE2 and ElephantPM
I have received several questions recently about how agile project management methodologies such as SCRUM can be used with deliverable-centric …
Choosing Manual Scheduled or Autoscheduled in Microsoft Project
A Microsoft Project task has many options and I am often asked how to choose the correct ones, Task Mode …
Dr James Bayley 