Tag: project management
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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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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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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…
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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…
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What is the best size for a logo?
[updated 4 April 2011 – removed irrelevant first paragraph] New companies and products need logos and it is important to get these created without too much fuss. To help with this it is useful to have some design rules. The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding states that: 16. the law of shape : A brand’s…
Dr James Bayley 