Posted by Kevin Brady on Fri 3rd October 2008 at 10:44 AM, Filed in Book Reviews

Five Stars

If you see a book with this rating, go out and buy it now, if you have the money! If you don’t (have the money), go and ‘steal’ or borrow a copy. It really is a ‘classic’, and you should have it in your library. Five star books should be regarded as an essential read for anyone wanting to develop their career as a Project /Programme Management Professional. You will not regret it.

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Posted by Kevin Brady on Thu 25th September 2008 at 08:51 AM, Filed in Programme Management,  MSP(managing successful projts)

I have recently received emails from readers saying that they don’t understand how MSP Quality management works together with PRINCE 2 quality management. The overwhelming feeling seems to be that quality in PRINCE 2 and MSP are incompatible.

To sort this issue out one needs to go back to basics

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Posted by Kevin Brady on Wed 24th September 2008 at 12:15 AM, Filed in Document Templates & Tools,  Benefits Realisation Management

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Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) is really gaining traction these days as a Professional Programme Management Framework, even if its focus is on change management. The fact is that there is currently little else being offered by the management institutes which better explains the inner workings of “best practice” programmes of work. Sad but true :(

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Posted by Kevin Brady on Thu 18th September 2008 at 03:04 PM, Filed in Programme Management,  Project Management

Having been involved every month for a year interviewing programme managers for a major Indian consultancy it is surprising how many people with excellent CV’s seem unable to answer the above question (please see my project /programme management recruitment questionnaire) correctly.
So what is the correct answer to this seemingly elementary query?

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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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