The 11th of June edition of the Economist carried an article entitled ‘Project management – Overdue and over budget, over and over again’ which bemoaned the tendency for projects to overrun in terms of cost and delivery date. The article cited research by the Standish Group suggesting that in 2004 Continue Reading
A stitch in time…
We have a couple of clients going live with systems at the moment, and we’ve been spending a lot of time working on an area that is frequently overlooked – defining the way the system will be used, and training and hold-holding the users so that these processes are quickly Continue Reading
Truncating the Fuzzy Front End
The bank holiday weekend gave me opportunity to read Steve McConnell’s book ‘Rapid Development’. One area that caught my attention was the phase of a development project which he describes as the Fuzzy Front End. In essence, if you consider the life of a project as extending from a glimmer Continue Reading