Category Archives: Management Theory

Software Project Manager . COM

Posted on October 21, 2010 by

The new companion site to this blog is now almost complete. But even now it has dozens of free Prince 2 and other free software project templates. It also has a free Software Project Management Fundamentals eBook, and will soon … Continue reading →

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The 5 Goals of a Project Manager

Posted on April 20, 2010 by

As a Project Manager, you need to manage people, money, suppliers, equipment—the list is never ending. The trick is to be focused. Set yourself 5 personal goals to achieve. If you can meet these simple goals for each project, then … Continue reading →

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Selection of Project Team Members for IT (or maybe any type of) Projects

Posted on March 4, 2010 by

It’s not always possible to know (or choose even if you did know) the skills and experience of everyone on a project team. Sure, we may know the technical skills required (especially on a software application development project), but that … Continue reading →

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Corporate IT Architecture Governance

Posted on September 6, 2009 by

Governance? In this context I mean the command, control and oversight of a company’s “IT Estate”.  From an Enterprise Architecture point of view this could mean business processes as well as more (more formally associated with IT) Software Applications, Data … Continue reading →

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The Catapult in Software Project Meetings

Posted on July 13, 2009 by

The ‘catapult’ or ‘butterfly’ body language is often displayed in project meetings. Why is body language important to a project  manager? Well, once you get past a certain level of experience in managing projects (or managing in general) you can … Continue reading →

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Why an extended enterprise architecture model is key to corporate transformation programmes

Posted on July 9, 2009 by

Enterprise Architecture   Most architectural frameworks centre around at least four inter-related domains (see diagram above), from which hangs off ever increasing organisational (enterprise) detail. Many frameworks avoid, or at least do not treat with the same importance, the people … Continue reading →

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X & Y Theory

Posted on July 2, 2009 by

Which gets the best results from a team, a software team – a PM who is dictatorial, assumes everyone is a slacker, and that people only turn up at work to do as little as possible, knows that nearly all … Continue reading →

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