Posted by Kevin Brady on Wed 6th February 2008 at 06:45 PM, Filed in PMO

For the Pros and Cons of other PMO models please see blogg posts Consulting PMO, Facilitative Managing PMO

This is where a PMO serves as the central governing project /programme management body driving the delivery of a programme or a group of related programmes. 

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Posted by Kevin Brady on Thu 24th January 2008 at 11:45 AM, Filed in Free Check Lists

Please click on this link to download FREE Domain Screening Questionaire

Some months ago I was involved in a massive recruitment campaign for project /programme management and was asked to conduct telephone based domain interviews in order to sort out the “wanna bes” from the real “have done its”. I devised a really useful domain screening questionaire consisting of a number of key domain level questions and a few short case study explorations. This attached screening document was really useful and helped strip out 70% of the potentials time wasters in one phone call. 

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Posted by Kevin Brady on Sun 22nd July 2007 at 11:45 PM, Filed in Project Management

The excellent IT project management site gantthead has a great article by Tom L. Barnett, PMP. In 10 Undeniable Truths of Project Management Barnett outlines 10 points gleaned from the history of IT project management and presents them for new and used project managers to reference.

Some great tips are included, some you’ve probably seen in other lists, books, posts, articles, etc., and a few that might surprise you (or not, if you’re a seasoned, battle scarred or veteran PM):

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Posted by Kevin Brady on Sun 15th July 2007 at 11:00 AM, Filed in Outsourcing,  Industry News

I have just come back from a trip to Bangalore India having been asked to set-up for a well known consultancy an offshore software development centre.

Complete Gridlock

Bangalore was selected because there is already a significant offshore IT development presence by companies such as Accenture, Honeywell Bull, Intel, IBM. It was decided that here I would pull together resource in order to set-up a 200 to 300 man software development factory.

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Posted by Kevin Brady on Sat 7th July 2007 at 06:02 PM, Filed in Document Templates & Tools,  Key Document Templates

Please click on this link to download FREE template

One of the most important project documentation milestone to achieve on any project, has to be the sign-off of a Test Strategy document. This typically contains the testing methodology and acceptance criteria, vital if you want to define the end point for a project and the starting point for maintenance and support to begin.

If your running a software house, getting a clear end to a project is one of the keys to profiatable software development. 

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