Tagged Posts: MSP
On my other blog I’ve been posting my process as I worked through the creation of a Quality Management Strategy.
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One key learning point was that the management of benefits, whilst considered by MSP as a separate activity, is absolutely fundamental to ensuring the programme delivers value, so it is important to make that an integrated part of the Quality management Strategy.
Another insight was the importance of considering quality as a series of “nested loops”…
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- 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 from a UK firm…
Keywords: cms, opensource
- SilverStripe - Open Source CMS / Framework:
Keywords: CMS, OpenSource
- Pharyngula: Arguments for morality are not arguments for religion:
Keywords: philosophy, atheism
- Privoxy:
Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities
Keywords: web-proxy, security, privacy
- Anonymous browsing with JAP:
java tool that links with online intermediary servers to allow anonymous surfing
Keywords: privacy
- Share This - Wordpress plugin:
Alex King plugin to make easy for readers to capture blog posts to social sharing sites like del.icio.us
Keywords: wordpress
- Articles plugin for Wordpress:
Alex King plugin which allows you to extract sleected blog posts out to another summary page.
Keywords: Wordpress
- Managing Successful Programmes - updates in 2007 revision:
Keywords: MSP, OGC, Standards
Technorati Tags: atheism, CMS, del.icio.us, MSP, OGC, OpenSource, Philosophy, SemanticWeb, standards, wordpress
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…
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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-05-01
- Winamp Plugin - Remote Speakers:
Stream from WinAmp to Aplpe Airport express
Keywords: winamp, airportexpress
- OGC ICT Guidance Note 3:
ICT Services Agreement, Guidance Note 2, Ownership and Licensing of Intellectual Property [registration required]
Keywords: @read, msp, ogc, ukgov
- OGC ICT Guidance Note 2:
ICT Services Guidance, Guidance Note 2, Payment, Affordability and Asset ownership [registration required]
Keywords: @read, ukgov, ogc, msp
- ICT Guidance Note 1:
<DIV>ICT Services Agreement Guidance, Guidance Note 1, Key Commercial Principles [registration required]
Keywords: ogc, ukgov, msp, @read
- Guide to the 2006 TUPE Regulations:
This guide tells you about the provisions of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (commonly known as the TUPE Regulations).<br>
Keywords: TUPE, UKGov
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- Reliable Project Delivery:
The Reliable Project Delivery programme is a key element of the ‘Transformational Government Enabled by Technology’ Strategy and has been set up to develop measures to increase the success rate of the government’s major IT related programmes and pro
Keywords: MSP, Programme_Management
- How To Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning With Ruby:
Book published under GPL Free Documentation Licence
Keywords: Ruby, ComputerScience
- Podcasts from CIPD:
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development podcasts on a range of management subjects
Keywords: Podcast, Management, ChangeManagement
- Managing Business Benefits: Key Principles:
OGC Checklist for SROs and Programme Managers
Keywords: MSP, Benefits_Management, Programme_Management
- Risk Allocation Model for Project Strategy and Procurement (OGC):
Guidance for risk analysis of outcomes, outputs and inputs and selection of appropriate procurement and project approaches
Keywords: MSP, Risk, Programme_Management
- NAO/OGC list of common causes of project failure:
The top eight…
Keywords: MSP, Project_Management, Portfolio_Management
Technorati Tags: Computer_Science, management, MSP, Programme Management, risk, Ruby
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-01-05
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I’ve just heard from Pearce Mayfield that I have passed the Managing Successful Programmes practitioner qualification -although the result isn’t on the APMG/OGC site yet.
(cross-posted from my MSP/PRINCE2 blog)
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I spent last week on the Managing Successful Programmes course.
The trainers were good, the group size was good (9 of us), and the other delegates were an interesting and friendly bunch from a range of industries. Between us we covered print, broadcast and online media, telecomms, manufacturing, software, and a couple of flavours of consultancy.
I’d recommend this course to anyone who was interested in MSP - the training is well-adapted for adult learning, and has a clear emphasis on providing the skills to get through the exams. It is however an intensive week - in particular on the first three evenings there was two to three hours of homework each night. The homework is framed as “optional”, but as a large part of it is practice in answering exam questions, I would imagine that it would be hard to get through the exams without doing the homework.
I managed to pass the Foundation exam without much difficulty, but I won’t know the result of the Intermediate and Practitioner papers for about 8 weeks – apparently the APMG examiners are over-worked at present!
The material is still very “close to me” in my mind, so too early to reflect properly on what I have learned.
(Cross-posted from my MSP blog)
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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-10-08
- EFQM Excellence Model Overview:
The EFQM Excellence Model was introduced at the beginning of 1992 as the framework for assessing organisations for the European Quality Award. It is now the most widely used organisational framework in Europe and it has become the basis for the majority o
Keywords: Programme_Management, MSP, Quality, PerformanceMeasurement
- The Goal Question Metric Approach:
Original paper by Basili, Caldiera and Rombach
Keywords: Programme_Management, MSP, PerformanceMeasurement
- David Seah : The Printable CEO™ Series:
A whole set of focusing and productivity tools, paper-based…
Keywords: Personal_Productivity
- Recovering folders in Thunderbird:
Get your mail back!
Keywords: Thunderbird
- CDBurnerXP Pro:
Freeware for Windows XP - the program can write CD-R, CD-RW DVD R/RW DVD-R/RW discs.
Keywords: Software/Utilities, DVD, CD
Technorati Tags: MSP, performance-measurement, Productivity, Programme Management, quality, Thunderbird, utilities
One of the reasons I’ve been quiet in this blog has been that I have started another blog specifically focused on Managing Successful Programmes.
When I set that blog up, I was planning on attending a training course in June on Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), leading (hopefully) to the practitioner certificatation. MSP is the UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC) approach to ensuring the success of major change programmes.
I’ve set up the other site as an online learning diary, and a central place for various notes. To support the blog there is also a wiki for more long-form notes.
Unfortunately the course I was attending has been withdrawn for June by the provider. Looks like I shall now go in October. Inevitably my motivation to go through the pre-work has been somewhat reduced, however I shall continue to post over there - I’m finding lots of ways to introduce key elements of the MSP approach into day-to-day work.
This should also mean that I have a little more online time to keep this place up-to-date!
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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-04-19
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