Eight expensive lessons in project management, for free!
When it comes to project management, it’s so much cheaper to learn from someone else’s mistakes. So here are a few of mine!
Non-existent code doesn’t crash
Let us sing the praises of ruthless editing. Focus on what is important and delete the rest. This is a lesson I keep learning and...
The Devil’s project management dictionary
Ambrose Bierce wrote his famous ‘Devil’s Dictionary’ after the American Civil War. It was as funny as it was cynical. I have written a ...
Mission control: 100 rules for NASA project management
NASA is undergoing some big changes and some some soul-searching right now. But it is an organisation that has achieved some of humanity’s...
Fast, cheap or good: choose two
I used to make computer games and back then we had a saying about project management: ‘you can have any two of fast, cheap or good.’ It’s a...
Little data: why it matters more than big data
Everyone’s talking about ‘big data’. There’s no doubt that there are more bits and bytes than ever before. As George Dyson writes ‘when the...
Reflections on Jonathan Ive and Apple design
An insight into Apple’s Jonathan Ive – Royal College of Art Innovation Night. A good while ago now, I went to see Jonathan Ive interviewed...