Looking the wrong way

by jed simms on April 28, 2010

When project delivery is not performing the natural tendency is to look at project management. “How can we improve project management?” “How can we improve the relationship between IT, the project and the business?” “How do we up-skill our project (…)

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Frozen out

by jed simms on April 21, 2010

The project was running late. The programming was finishing and they were working towards testing in a few weeks. But, concurrently, the business solution was being checked with the business. The process being used was to go through, with the (…)

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Watching

by jed simms on April 15, 2010

They say that there are three types of manager – those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those that ask, “What happened?” I recently watched a governance team in action (or should that be ‘inaction’?) The (…)

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Scoring goals

by jed simms on April 8, 2010

In football (soccer) the only true measure of success is goals – balls in the back of the net. It is not how well you play or how many chances you create or how much pressure you apply to the (…)

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