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Often in a project we focus on the wrong things. Lets look at a project with the goal of building a plane that will take off.  The challenge is that while we are building the plane it is slowly moving towards the end of the runway. Once we run out of runway the...

Cloud computing is the latest buzz word and in true IT style, we have invented a raft of TLA's to explain what it is (and isn't) as well as a myriad of versions to confuse people even more. PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, DaaS, public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, BIaaS, How...

When you find something you don't like a natural reaction is to complain. The people you complain to will often listen politely, but they won't typically do anything about it. (Unless you have something they really want, that they will lose if they don't rectify what...

Your idea probably isn't unique. But then again you probably haven't found anybody that has done it the way you plan to do it. So don't spend your time asking people to sign NDA's or telling them half of the story. Just go execute on it. If you not sure, or need help,...

So you have a good idea, but your not sure if it will work? It probably is, just try it. But make sure you minimise what you lose if it goes wrong. Want to hire somebody but your not sure they are a perfect fit? Who is perfect, just try them. But tell them your not...

Steering Committees are not there to discuss anything in detail, review any documents, or negotiate an outcome. Steering Committees are there as a governance group to ensure the project is on time, on budget, doing the right things, delivering the outcome that was...

You never actually sell anything, a customer always buys something. You can't (legally) make a customer buy what you want to sell. But you can convince them that the thing you would like to sell, will solve a problem they have, at a value that makes sense, from people...

So when a project fails, who gets fired or who doesn't get paid? When a job isn't done properly and a customer decides to go somewhere else, who is impacted apart from the customer and the shareholders? Or when an employee leaves to work somewhere else because a...

Seth Godin wrote in his book Purple Cow about being remarkable.  He blogged how to be remarkable here. Being remarkable makes you different, it means you will be remembered and means your customers will (often) come back again. Today I had a remarkable experience from...

Im sat here writing a blog post about why data warehouses die, and I was about to write about that person called  "the business". How many times have you worked on a a project where team members talk about "the business"? Its not a person, its not a organisational...