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Relative popularity of Java, ASP, Perl, PHP and Scala in print
When deciding what programming language to use for a project the answer is always “the one your team can use!” but even so it is interesting to compare the trends in the market. I have used Google Ngram Viewer to compare the frequency with which the names of various programming languages appear in books. If…
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iPad media apps: Stealthed hobbits thwart Google’s flaming Eye • The Register
This is a very interesting article. It wonders if we might see the “App” model moving to the desktop. Opinion Tablet media applications have a Google invisibility cloak around their stories. As this spreads a deadly revenue-denying dart could penetrate Google’s media business model. eyeofSauron ‘There is no hope in the void’ The worldwide web…
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Who should own the IP in a new venture II
Last week I briefly discussed the contentious issue of who should own the IP in a new venture. One reader made the offline comment that I seemed to saying that IP had no value and people really should not worry about it too much. They asked that I justify this position. What I am saying…
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Who should own the IP in a new venture?
The most contentious part of any new product development is often the question of who should own the existing IP (intellectual property). This is wrong, what each party should concern themselves with is who should own the future revenue. Personally, I would be happy for my partner to own all the IP if I get…
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Resource provider engagement in the school fair
In an earlier post I observed that in my experience one of the most problematic areas for project managers is the consistency of support from key resource suppliers. This was forcibly pointed out to me again this week. My wife volunteered to organise the Christmas Fair at my son’s primary school. While I have always…
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Maths homework – solve a difference pryamid
Here is a “simple” problem my 7-year-old son was given for homework. The task is to put the numbers 1 to 10 into the pyramid so that each number appears once and is the difference of the two numbers in the blocks below it. I have started to fill in the pyramid. You can see…
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Stakeholder agreements are vital to successful projects
I am now writing the chapter in my book ElephantPM that describes how to start-up a project. When I look back over the projects that I have worked on, I think that there is one success factor that has caused me more problems than any other and that is “Stakeholder engagement”. PRINCE2 has this to…
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A project manager joke
Walking on the Beach A project manager, software engineer, and hardware engineer are in Miami Beach for a two-week period helping out on a project. On their lunch hours, they often chose to walk up and down the beach. During one of these walks, they stumble upon a lamp. The hardware engineer picks up the…
Dr James Bayley
Creating successful projects
Dr James Bayley 