Posted by Kevin Brady on Sat 27th June 2009 at 11:04 AM, Filed in Industry News
Last week I attended the Best Practice Showcase a real must to attend. The event focuses on project & programme management networking (meet who’s who in the project and programme management world), presentations running through changes /improvements in project and programme management best practices and the opportunity to participate in over 100 different workshops covering cutting edge and controversial topics in project and programme management. If your interested in furthering your project, programme and PMO management capability then this is the even for you.
Don’t miss this in 2010 !
I spent a whole day at the event last week and sat in on case study presentations covering subjects as diverse as Agile /Scrum, SRO’s Attitudes and a very very interesting presentation by Pearcemayfield concerning the important matter of how PRINCE2 and MSP can be reconciled as a unified project and programme management framework.
More on these in coming posts.
After a break spending sometime on designing an upgrade to the current Clarety site (to be released towards the end of this year) I am now back doing what I enjoy and that is writing for Clarety.
A lot has happened in the world since my last post. The credit crunch now looks more like a depression than a recession with few solutions other than a battening down of hatches and riding out the coming storm of rising unemployment and corporate failures.
Despite this backdrop I feel the changes in the world economy will have a positive effect on the world of Project and Programme Management. This I believe will take place through changes in people’s attitudes as they deal with its consequences.
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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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