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BACKGROUND Kevin Brady's Biography Blog Objectives Speaking Engagements	KEY DOCUMENT TEMPLATES FREE Project Communications Plan Template FREE Programme Dashboard Template FREE Test Strategy Product Description Document FREE Risk & Issue Logs FREE IT Project Status Report Template	KEY ARTICLES Is IT Offshoring Worthwhile? Is IT Project Management Professionalism on the decline? Taylor Vs Deming and Software Development - Part 1 AGILE /SCRUM Fails to get to grips with Human Psychology. AGILE Enough is Enough !

Fools & Their Tools Posted by Kevin Brady on Wed 5th July 2006 at 09:01 AM, Filed in IT Management Tools, Programme Management This week I released a post offering for free a download of a Programme Level Access 2003 Risk /Issue tracking tool Access 2003 Risk & Issue Tracking Tool. I suggest anyone who is serious about risk and issue management needs to download this tool. However, the problem with project management tools and their ability to increase the probability of IT project /programme success rates is nicely explained by the following quote:- “A fool with a tool is still a fool”  Link to John’s article on “tools and fools” 11/05/04 John Stelzer is Director fo Industry Development for Sterling Commerce Read more... Del.icio.us Digg this Comments (1) Email to a friend FREE IT Programme Risk /Issue Tracking Tool Posted by Kevin Brady on Sun 2nd July 2006 at 04:20 AM, Filed in IT Management Tools Please click on the following link to download your FREE Access 2003 Programme Level Risk Issue Tracking & Logging Tool When you download the attached file, you will notice that it is in PKZIP compressed format in order to help those few people still using narrow band. In order to get access to the application you will need to uncompress the file using PKZIP for Windows. If you do not have PKZIP installed on your PC then I suggest you get a free 30-day trial down load from PKWARE. It is easy to install and use! The purpose of this risk /issue-tracking tool was to solve the difficulties of tracking, controlling and aggregating risks & issues across differing projects within the same programme of work. Running proper risk & issue management on large IT programmes of work often consists of weekly sorting of numerous spreadsheet-based risk & issue logs with differing data fields and formats. Amalgamating these numerous spreadsheets into two or three homogenous spreadsheets for attachment to my fortnightly Programme Progress Report was in some cases a real paper-churning knightmare. After a belly full of this I built the attached application. Read more... Del.icio.us Digg this Comments (2) Email to a friend Page 1 of 1 pages	SPONSORED LINKS BLOG CATEGORIES Background (2) Book Reviews (1) Change Management (1) Free Check Lists (6) Industry News (7) IT Management Tools (2) IT Strategy (7) Key Articles (5) Key Document Templates (7) MSP(managing successful projts) (1) Prince2 (2) Professional Qualifications (3) Programme Management (17) Project /Programme Failures (6) Project Management (25) Risk & Issue Management (3) Software Dev Methodologies (9) Software Development (5) Templates (12) UML (1) MOST COMMENTED AGILE /SCRUM Fails to get to grips with Human Psychology. (55) Taylor Vs Deming and Software Development - Part 2 (18) Indian Offshore IT Projects – Boom or Bust (12) AGILE Enough is Enough ! (12) Is IT Offshoring Worthwhile? (9) FREE IT Project Status Report Template (7) Is IT Project Management Professionalism on the decline? (7) Taylor Vs Deming and Software Development - Part 1 (7) AGILE Fees Feeding Frenzy! (6) AGILE Will Burn Your ARSE (6) BLOG ARCHIVES Complete Archives Sitemap	SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBE TO FEED RECOMMENDED BOOKS
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