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Accessible Software – the Consultant’s version
This my personal blog rather than my company blog. Professionally, I help organisations implement process changes, particularly in the areas of project and process management. The indulgence of a personal blog is that I can present my views in a more straightforward style however my last post drew negative comments from part of its intended…
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Accessible software – somebody pays
Today I went to the Londroid (London Android) Office RNIB Hackathon that was sponsored by Blue Via. The goal was to help app developers to learn more about the needs of blind people. This was a great event and I would like to thank everyone who made it possible and the kind people from the…
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Lean software development: Minimum Marketable Feature and Minimum Viable Product
In an earlier post I talked about Eric Reis’ game changing book The Lean Start-up and Minimum Viable Product. This excellent blog post from Jeff Patton provides another layer of detail. [Agile] Stories must be minimal marketable features The term “minimal marketable feature” was first used in the book Software by Numbers. This book placed…
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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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Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications – All Things Distributed
I am interested in Amazon’s new NoSQL database DynamoDB. We develop Android applications and a core requirement is scalable session management. This seems to be a primary use of DynamoDB. Dynamo was born out of our need for a highly reliable, ultra-scalable key/value database. This non-relational, or NoSQL, database was targeted at use cases that…
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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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Investing in Startups – For Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors
Last night I attend the London Business Starters meetup Investing in Startups – For Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors. There were two presentations. Michael Waschnig talked about the start-up life cycle. He used the model presented in the Startup Genome Report (register and download): Discovery Validation Efficiency Scale Profit maximization Renewal With particular emphasis on the…
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CloudFront now supports 20 GB downloads
An interesting announcement from Amazon AWS. Now CloudFront can be used to deliver even the largest types training materials and software. The ability to use custom origins will be interesting to users who store their content in their own content management systems (CMS). Amazon CloudFront: Announces Support for Delivery of Files up to 20 GB…
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Amazon S3 object expiration
Over the Christmas period Amazon announced. Today we’re excited to announce Object Expiration, a new feature to help you efficiently manage data stored in Amazon S3. Object Expiration enables you to schedule the removal of objects after a defined time period. This is very cool. Chron jobs are always problematic, it is much better to…
Dr James Bayley
Creating successful projects
Dr James Bayley 