Posted by Kevin Brady on Thu 31st July 2008 at 08:44 PM, Filed in Templates

Please click “Project Brief” to get your Zipped Word Template

The project brief is possibly one of the most important management products in a projects lifecycle other than the Project Initiation Document which is often no more than a fleshed out version of the Brief.

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Posted by Kevin Brady on Sun 29th June 2008 at 08:59 PM, Filed in MSP(managing successful projts)

MSP stands for Managing Successful Programmes and is the Office of Government & Commerce’s own portfolio of policies and standards setting out what “good” looks like with respect to programme management. Together with the APMG (Association of Project Management Group) these good /best practices have been encapsulated into a framework and published by the TSO in a book entitled “Managing Successful Programmes”. This book is now the basis for a series of APMG qualifications pitched at different levels – Foundation (knowledge test), Practitioner (ability to apply MSP to real world situations, Advanced (ability to design and execute an MSP Programme).

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Posted by Kevin Brady on Wed 9th April 2008 at 02:40 PM, Filed in Programme Management,  Project Management,  Software Dev Methodologies

Click – Onshore /Offshore Process Map – to download Zipped PowerPoint File.

Looking at some of the rankings on Google of some of my old posts it would appear over the last year that I have become one of the main critics of Scrum /Agile:-

• Agile SCRUM Fails To Get To Grips With Human Psychology
• Agile Conspiracy
• Taylor Vs Deming & Software Development – Part 1
• Taylor Vs Deming & Software Development – Part 2
• Agile Fees Feeding Frenzy
• Agile Storm In a Tea Cup
• Agile Will Burn Your Arse
• Agile Enough Is Enough

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Posted by Kevin Brady on Mon 7th April 2008 at 12:49 PM, Filed in

Its rare for me to go off message please see blog objectives but I am currently very unhappy with our current London Mayor (Ken Livingston) and hearing about money being wasted and corruption in his administration I am posting this campaign promotion for Boris Johnson who I hope will be elected Mayor in London during May of this year.

Fingers crossed

So what does Boris stand for and what is his back ground which would make him a great choice for London ?

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Posted by Kevin Brady on Sat 5th April 2008 at 12:30 AM, Filed in Key Document Templates,  Templates

Click -Communications Plan Template - to download Word document

A communications plan, after the establishment of risk and issue processes and procedures, is the next most important set of processes and procedures to get established if you want to give your project the best chance of success.

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