Author Archives: jmorse
Why?
Just a quick note, why do some PM’s try to score points off each other. There seems to be a breed of managers that try to create a situation, dissent for the hell of it purely because they can? Wrong, bad, go to the naughty step, hate that, hate hate hate. My job is to [...]
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Taking a view on Agile requriements
I have recently been having a discussion with a colleague trying to get them to understand that, in an agile environment you don’t need to define the deliverables with finite detail but instead have a vision of what you need to achieve and work towards it in measurable chunks. In order to do so i [...]
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Tailoring Prince2
At the risk of seeming obsessive, I’d like to touch on one of the major issues I feel that Prince2 still has in its education program and thus its application in the ‘real world’. Its comes in part from the distinction, real or perceived between the real working environment and the classroom (or Prince2 environment). [...]
the Prince2 problem
Last week I completed my course and exam for my Prince2 practitioner certification. Now its no secret to those that know me that I have reservations about Prince as a methodology and over prescriptive ways of working, leaning more towards agile approaches as a rule. But any methodology is just a tool and, despite what [...]
Lest we forget
This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say ‘To-morrow [...]
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@ia on ia
I picked this up on twitter and immeadiately felt the need to repost, very very good, for more information go to : http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/ http://twitter.com/iA
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Success
If you want a thing bad enough To go out and fight for it, Work day and night for it, Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it If only desire of it Makes you quite mad enough Never to tire of it, Makes you hold all other things tawdry and [...]
Parenthood in a digital age
I recently became a parent, that not to say we gave birth, no, but after a long drawn out process, we, my fiancée and I, managed to get her son a visa to come live with us in the UK, he was 11 and has now just turned 13. It’s a difficult age, I remember [...]
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PM 101: badgers never win
Little tip, no matter how much you try and how hard you want it, as a PM you should always avoid the constant badgering of your team or resources attached to your team, to deliver ‘product’. it never works, when I was on the other side of the line writing code and being ‘the resource’ [...]
The Mayonnaise Jar