A Project Manager’s Guiding Principles
DaleLead by example Constantly communicate a sense of urgency Know your scope, manage it relentlessly Report the past – Manage the future Know your governance model and use it appropriately…
“Yes, the plane can be two hours late, but you still have to check in on time …”
Travelled on Tiger Airways recently, and the service wasn’t too bad. Sure, Terminal 4 at Tullamarine Airport is a converted shed, and the baggage pickup area IS A shed, but…
Project Landmines
Poor project definition Ineffective project management Ineffective architectural engineering Poor communications Inadequate project plan Inadequate project tracking and projecting Ineffective governance Lack of client alignment and support Lack of accountability…
Ball juggling
Back in October 2006, one of the CSC Australia sales reps rocks up to my desk "That price quote Wayne gave us for support 4 different versions of SheepBotherer, is…
The Microsoft Loopback Adapter, NT4 & Windows 7.
Reading a Microsoft blog post recently, I was reminded of a customer request from late 2002. The emailed request was something like this: Had to use the generic Win NT4…
Auslogics Disk Defrag – a 5 minute review.
Does not defragment removable drives, even though Windows built-in defragger does. No choice to do an Analyse first, it was straight into Defrag. No PC slowdown noticed. Does a through…
It’s Wednesday
Not sure where I first saw this: A plane enters Darwin air space and, without identifying itself, asks traffic control for the local time. Traffic control replies 'If you're an…
Staff problems
Note: this was a post from 2008, when I was working for CSC Australia. I'm having all the joys of, not only leading my band of Merry Men, but another…
Stop Digging
So good it’s worth quoting: … Within 1/2 an hour the “rocking” VSTS team had resolved the problem, leaving me stranded on a vertical cliff, wondering how I ever got…