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Archive for September 2007

Links Roundup for 2007-09-27

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-27 Turn Gmail (or any E-mail Account) Into a Social Network Hub: Steve Rubel interacting with Twitter and Facebook from Gmail Keywords: gmail Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center: Steve Rubel’s take on making GMail the centre of your personal information processing Keywords: gmail, pkm

Links Roundup for 2007-09-26

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-26 Quality Management Strategies – 5: Keywords: msp, quality, programme_management, myposts

Quality Management Strategies – 5

Further reference to the [[MSP]] manual (p77, 2003 version) identifies three areas of programme activities where quality management is involved: Quality management of the governance arrangements – this corresponds to the top level “Governance Reviews” in post 3 of this series. Quality assurance and review of project outputs – this corresponds to the lower three levels in post 3 [...]

Links Roundup for 2007-09-25

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-25 Quality Management Strategies – 4: Keywords: msp, programme_management, quality, myposts The International Congress for Project,Programme and Risk Management.: Keywords: conferences, exhibitions A List Apart: Articles: If I Told You You Had a Beautiful Figure…: Making sure rogue image widths don’t break your layout. Keywords: css, webmaster, javascript Benefit Realisation [...]

Quality Management Strategies – 4

At some point we will have to identify the who of Quality Management – who will carry out all of the activities. Looking at the last post it occurred to me that a useful simplifying assumption would be to divide the processes into three levels: Meta-Programme Activities Quality activities which sit outside the programme Programme Activities Quality activities at the programme level Project [...]

Quality Management Strategies – 3

In the last two posts of this series I have started down the line of understanding the value chain of a programme, and therefore what it is we need to quality assure. This post steps back for a moment to think about the sort of process we need to design in our Quality Management Strategy – the how of [...]

Programme Value Chain

I found this diagram useful to explain how the various activities and plans within a programme combine to add value for the programme sponsoring group and stakeholders: Technorati Tags: diagrams, MSP, Programme Management, Value

Quality Management Strategies – 2

Why do we need a Quality Management Strategy? In an earlier post I wrote about my confusion when starting to think about how to create a quality management strategy for my programme. Let’s go back to basics – why do we need a Quality Management Strategy? Fundamentally it’s about ensuring (to an acceptable level of certainty) that the Programme will [...]

Quality Management Strategies – 1

I’ve been thinking about how to put together a Quality Management Strategy for the programme I am shaping. Question is, where to start… The MSP Manual says: […] used to define and establish the activities for managing quality across the programme which sounds tautologous to me. In Chapter 9 on Quality Management, a bit more detail appears: The Quality Management Strategy [...]

Links Roundup for 2007-09-24

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-24 Best Practice Showcase 2007 – Seminar Programme: Seminar presentations Keywords: programme_management, project_management Practical Benefits Management (pdf): presentation from Defence Communications Support Agency. From 2006 Best Practice Showcase<br> Keywords: msp, benefits_management OGC – Successful Delivery Toolkit: Keywords: programme_management Rethinking Project Management – Critical Insight and Incident Analysis: Keywords: project_management, @read Rethinking [...]

Links Roundup for 2007-09-21

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-21 Rethinking Project Management – Final Report(pdf): <em>Rethinking Project Management </em>was a UK Government-funded research network that held its first meeting in March 2004 and [...]

Links Roundup for 2007-09-20

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-20 How to do research (advice): Keywords: howto, researchtools Vontu 7 covers your end point – InfoWorld Review: Keywords: security, endpoint Microsoft Team Blogs: Keywords: microsoft Microsoft Feeds Directory: Keywords: Microsoft, Feeds Zotero – The Next-Generation Research Tool: Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze [...]

Links Roundup for 2007-09-19

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-19 Lighthouse: Simple hosted Issue tracking, bug tracking, and project management software. Keywords: webapps, issuetracking The Different CTO Roles: Views from Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com Keywords: corporateIT, WernerVogels, CTO Build Amazon Widgets: Keywords: amazonassociates Ming is re-thinking blogs: Keywords: blogging, socialsoftware Google Presentation goes live: Keywords: googleapps Technorati Tags: blogging, CTO, googleapps, IssueTracking, social+software, WebApps, WernerVogels

Gym Reflections part 3

I’m still going to the gym, although as I mentioned I’m giving organised classes a miss for a while. I’ve been a few times since my last post, and wanted to capture some of the things I’ve (re-)discovered. It’s much easier to focus on aerobic training if you use a Heart Rate Monitor When the gym is busy, [...]

Links Roundup for 2007-09-17

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-17 YUI: CSS Grid Builder: Tool to design grids using the YUI CSS library Keywords: css, tools Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS: Keywords: CSS, DesignFrameworks Cross-references Wordpress plugin: Keywords: wordpress/plugins Yahoo! Design Pattern Library: Keywords: patterns New iPods reengineered to block synching with Linux: Keywords: Apple, Ipod, lockin, anticompetition, monopolies

Links Roundup for 2007-09-14

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-14 Blogs, Wordpress, Zitgist and the Semantic Web at Frederick Giasson’s Weblog: Frederick Giasson has released an interesting plugin which searches out semantic information form links. I don’t understand it yet, but will play for a while… Keywords: wordpress, semanticweb Backup Del.icio.us with Excel: Keywords: SocialBookmarks, Tools, Spreadsheets, via:fritz Alfresco: Award-winning open-source enterprise CMS [...]

No more Sources page

I’ve decided to retire the “Sources” page I put in place when I moved my blogroll off the front page. Although the page was dynamically updated by my then feed-reader (Bloglines), my account on there has lain dormant for some time, so the page has long-since ceased to be a current indication of the sources I [...]

MSP07 Launched

The new version of MSP has been launched, amongst the authors are my ex-colleague Rod Sowden, and Patrick Mayfield, who I haven’t met, but whose training company seem to do good work! Now to get on a refresh course… Technorati Tags: MSP, OGC, standards

Links Roundup for 2007-09-13

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-13 Forgotten Forefather: Paul Otlet: Paul Otlet – possibly the inventor of Information Architecture, certainly the inventor of the first full implementations of a faceted classification system Keywords: IA The long, complex road to justice: BBC report on the amazing number of procedures and forms associated with processing a “simple” arrest. Keywords: bureaucracy Technorati [...]

Links Roundup for 2007-09-12

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-12 Last.fm Power Tweaks: Keywords: lastfm, music Gigabyte: Decimal vs. Binary: Jeff Atwood revisits the difference between 10-based and 2-based measurements – or why is my 500GB hard drive only 465 GB? Keywords: standards Advice for Students: Use a Wiki for Better Note-Taking – lifehack.org: General wiki advice aimed at students, with links to [...]

Links Roundup for 2007-09-11

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-11 A Brief (not really) Guide to Exercise and Weight Lifting: Keywords: fitness Abdominal muscle exercises and abdominal oblique exercises: Keywords: fitness Technorati Tags: Fitness

Trying a gym class – BodyPump

As I mentioned on Saturday, I’m looking for ways to get more engaged with my fitness activities, and as my new gym offers a range of classes within the monthly membership fee, I thought I’d try out a couple. First exploration was last night, when I tried a class called BodyPump™. This is described in the [...]

Links Roundup for 2007-09-10

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-10 weight training worksheet (pdf): Keywords: exerciselogging, fitness TargetWeightCoach Exercise plan/log (pdf): Keywords: fitness, exerciselogging How to Change Up Your Weight Training Routine: Straightsetting, pre- and post-exhaustion, vary weight/reps/sets, supersets, pyramids and reverse pyramids, tempo and tension, anabolic/anaerobic conditioning, periodisation. Keywords: weighttraining, fitness Cardio Exercises – Good or Bad? How to H.I.I.T. to Burn Fat [...]

New Gym, New Start

Over the years I’ve been an intermittent visitor to the halls of fitness. From a peak in my mid-twenties when I did a lot of cycling (including a season of pretending to race!) it’s been something of a long-term decline over the last two decades, punctuated by occasional interludes of pushing back up the hill for [...]

Links Roundup for 2007-09-07

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-07 Google Library:Keywords: googleapps, googlelibrary, books 10 Micro-Blogging Tools Compared:Keywords: blogging/technology, socialsoftware SlySoft AnyDVD: AnyDVD works in the background to automatically remove the copy protection of a DVD movie as soon as it’s inserted into the drive, allowing you then to backup the movie using a DVD backup tool such as [...]

Links Roundup for 2007-09-06

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-06 The Importance of “So What?” in A3 Kaizen: Great summary post on the “A3 Kaizen” approach, and the importance of drilling down to root causes. Keywords: lean, kaizen Personal Unit Tests: Keywords: personalproductivity, personaldevelopment Visualizing Agile Projects using Kanban Boards: Keywords: agile, kanban, lean Technorati Tags: Agile, kaizen, Kanban, lean, personal-development, Productivity

Links Roundup for 2007-09-05

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-05 Creating a Personal Research Agenda: Keywords: via:mattmower, pkm, personalresearch You and Your Research: Keywords: RichardHamming, PersonalResearch, ImportantProblems, PKM XML Design Patterns: Develop effective XML documents using structural design patterns. Develop effective XML documents using structural design patterns. Keywords: xml, patterns BBC DMI project files now public: BBC DMI project files now [...]

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