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Chucking it over the wall

Posted by Cathryn in : Project Management , add a comment

Through the life of the project, you involve the people in IT Operations who will be supporting it.  They’re keen to help, and everyone says all the right things.  If things go very well, the right documentation is produced, perhaps someone from the service desk or a service manager is seconded onto the project team for a while, training is timely and thorough, and Operational Acceptance Testing is a wonderful collaborative effort between IT Operations and the Project Team.
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FOWA 2007, day two

Posted by Cathryn in : Technology , 2 comments

FOWA logoThe day starts inauspiciously with sales pitches thinly disguised as serious talks from Adobe and Microsoft.  The wifi still isn’t working and someone postulates the theory that the failure to repeat last year’s booing is down to the lack of a backchannel for coordinating dissent.  BT had promised to try and get it running, but that’s BT for you.
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Impressions of FOWA 2007

Posted by Cathryn in : Technology , 2 comments

Today and Wednesday, I’m at the Future of Web Applications conference in London, mixing with geek entrepeneurs. 

The speakers are a parade of young Americans.  Kevin Rose, of Digg fame, turns thirty tomorrow.  These geeks are remarkably articulate.
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5 Useful, Free Websites

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The web is the best thing that ever happened to the IT project manager. Amazingly, many of the best things are free. Here are some of the ones I use regularly. (more…)

What do project managers do?

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You’re a Project Manager. Its been years since you cut any code, your chances of configuring a router or installing a complex piece of software are pretty low and the last time you actually built something it was using an antediluvian version of Oracle and C. Not C#, just plain old C. What on earth use are you to the project? (more…)