Communication for project managers

Before you even consider communication with any audience from one person to 100 million people, you need to first gain their respect and trust. If you don’t, why should they listen to you.
Just like you they are bombarded with messages all day every day and they only have time to listen to a choice few that come from trusted sources , that gain their attention and arouse their interest.

Agile, Agile the rumblings continue. .

Your perception of agile is not right, you just don’t see the real benefits of agile because you are not a true agile practitioner, you just use it as a looser form waterfall when it suits you, but you never really took the faith. We are delivering year in and year out in a way we never could with a traditional approach.

When is a business case not a business case (part two)

A key to building a rock solid business case is to understand the relationships between requirements, features, benefits and risks and to take a methodical approach to evaluating likely ROI as a key part of the process.

The evils of groupthink and the risk to all Social media users

AKA “ Say hello to someone” Power to think The most spectacularly creative people in many fields are often introverted, according to studies by the psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Gregory Feist. They’re extroverted enough to exchange and advance ideas, but see themselves as independent and individualistic. They’re not joiners by nature.” NYtimes SUSAN CAIN JAN. … Read more

Selecting Waterfall, structured, Iterative or agile for your software project

First lets understand the difference. Waterfall is the most misquoted of all methods. Waterfall is defined by the simple fact that each stage in the project must complete fully and be agreed/signed-off before the next stage can begin. Sometimes it is very important that the previous stage was fully and correctly completed. An example would … Read more

Inflation explained for the layman

It is impossible to discuss cryptocurrency without understanding inflation. It is a simple concept that causes massive confusion. Even politicians with fiscal responsibility can be heard making huge gaffes in public, though often that is deliberate. Ill return to this. There are two ways of viewing inflation that are two sides of the same coin … Read more

Encryption explained for the layman

Encryption is nothing more than a harmless mathematical algorithm that converts your information into unintelligible rubbish to the extent that that it is pretty much impossible to retrieve and read it without the Public key. Blowfish, AES RC4, RC5, and RC6 are examples of encryption algorithms. By giving someone the Public key they can achieve … Read more

App

“App” used to simply be short for Application. The systems or programs we run our computers. Gradually in the course of the late nineties the Application became the Solution and the new applications designed to run natively on mobile phones like iPhones and Androids became nicknamed “Apps”. When the battle between desktop and smartphone began … Read more