So you’ve got project lead on this. What’s your goal? Finishing X, Y and Z within stipulated budgets and time frames? Please say no. What are you, a robot?

In my mind your goal is to deliver the best product or service possible, your goal is to advice your client on how he or …

There is much talk in the Project Management community about the Standish report that tells us that IT projects fail miserably just about all the time. Responses from my peers appear either apologetic (Sorry, we suck), or angry (No, YOU suck). Someone appears to be sucking here, but no one seems to …

In an earlier post I talked about how “the good Internet” makes us all better off, but tried to remind you all that the end game for the companies remain the same: higher profits. Don’t be fooled. It’s not niceness. And that’s fine, just keep this in mind OK?

We can spot the same …

When I was a kid my father liked to repeat an anecdote from his youth. Apparently, my father was quite impressed with the old cowboy westerns that appeared on cinema at the time. He was so impressed, that he decided that if he would ever become a real cowboy, he needed to learn how …

And into the meeting room comes a noise maker. He asks you when you can have (insert any new feature / product that you have never heard anyone mention before) ready. So you reply, as always, with the patience of a zen monk on valium:

“It depends”, you say, as you have said so …

So there are lots of people making a whole lot of noise. It’s “We need to do this”, “We need to do that”. And it sounds as if the world will surely come to an end if someone does not act upon this noise right fu**ing now, or preferably yesterday. Who this “someone” …