Posted by Kevin Brady on Fri 31st October 2008 at 12:59 PM, Filed in Industry News
In my view great presentations are based around 8 ground rules:-
1. Know your audience
2. Tell them
3. What they’re going to see
4. What they’re seeing
5. What they saw (summary)
6. Maintain eye contact with key people in the audience
7. Do not read each viewgraph/slide; paraphrase the main ideas
8. Avoid slides that
a. Are too cluttered
b. Talk down to the audience
c. Are too ostentatious
d. Cannot be read by everyone in the room
9. Leave enough time for each slide’s message to sink in
10. Be careful about interruptions
11. Generally, hand out hard copies at the end, not at the beginning
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Posted by Kevin Brady on Mon 6th October 2008 at 04:03 PM, Filed in Industry News
Last Week I attended the Project Expo 2008 at Olympia for Project and Programme Managers. This is the best FREE industry show in the South of the UK. If you are an experienced or aspiring project /programme manager this is a must, and certainly worth a train ticket and a day off work.
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Posted by Kevin Brady on Wed 10th September 2008 at 02:05 PM, Filed in Industry News
As everyone knows I have a number of concerns about the current Outsourcing trend gathering pace at this present time. My blogg post “Is Offshoring Worthwhile” summarises some of my views. I suggest anyone who is interested in initiating a major offshore IT project or programme should read this post and more importantly read the comments sections which show some focused debate on this subject by people clearly working for offshore suppliers.
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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 Wed 22nd November 2006 at 11:22 PM, Filed in Industry News
The second aspect of my visit to Florida, which left a deep impression on me, was a visit to the Kennedy Space Centre where we attended a lunch with the Astronaut Al Worden which at a price per head of $36.99 was far far too cheap for a good lunch and a honoured presentation by a real hero such as Al Worden. Al for those who do not know was the command module pilot for Apollo 15 between the 15th July and 26th August 1971 along with Commander David R.Scott and Lunar Module Pilot James B.Irwin.
Apollo 15 was the fourth manned lunar landing mission and the first to visit and explore the moon’s Hadley Rille and Apennine Mountains, which are located on the southeast edge of Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains).
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