Management

Fast Five with Scott Barber

  As Big Kev used to say… “I’m excited!” Why?  Because this is the first of our ‘fast five’ series of posts.  You may recall me mentioning it here.  It will be a series of posts where I interview some dead set awesome people from our industry, and what a way to start!  I can’t..

read more →

Is it really worth the risk?

March 4, 2012 | posted in: General, Management, Risk Management, Testing | by 1 Comment

This is a bit of a follow on from the previous post about Risk Based Testing, entitled “Risky Business…” As Peter K mentioned, risk based testing is a large topic and I would like to share my thoughts and a different angle on the topic. I have been in the testing game for 25 years..

read more →

Creating a Successful Project Delivery Organisation

Projects can be exciting, providing the opportunities to learn, invent and push the boundaries in an effort to achieve. So people often love to be associated with a project, especially in the early days. The knack is to maintain this enthusiasm from all quarters (the project team, management, support groups and those external service providers),..

read more →

Discipline Creates Value

November 9, 2011 | posted in: Management, Portfolio Management | by

“There is nothing as useless as doing efficiently what should not be done at all” – Peter Drucker Over the past few years, there has been a great deal of effort in creating and improving the competencies that should deliver successful projects.    What is less focussed on and indeed is the single largest reason behind..

read more →

Balancing the cost of investment to ultimately cut costs

November 4, 2011 | posted in: Management, Portfolio Management, Risk Management | by

When we invest in something we either know that it will yield a return in some way or we suspect that it will.  We personally  invest in all sorts of things from real estate and shares to our kids education.    It’s a positive action, we invest to build something for the future and we keep..

read more →