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	<title>Simon Battersby&#039;s blog &#187; Project Management</title>
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		<title>Consultant buzzwords</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Consultant-speak buzzwords have been around for a while, of course, but the one that really gets up my nose is &#8220;underpinned&#8221;. Often used when announcing some new development or innovation, it is somehow (deemed) far more impressive to say that it&#8217;s underpinned by this, that or the other. I thought that was what you did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blackberrys, naval signalling and thinking for yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m reading this book about Scott&#8217;s expeditions to the Antarctic at the moment.
A bit of background information about the Royal Navy particularly interested me. It talks about communication between naval vessels in action. In Nelson&#8217;s time in the early 1800s it was very difficult, with the result that each captain had to rely on his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Involve the users</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the very first paid job I did, as a fresh-faced 18 year old, I was on the receiving end of some new technology. It was an interesting experience. 
The technology in question was a complex piece of machinery which automated the process of splitting up multiple carbon copies of orders for distribution to different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less is more</title>
		<link>http://www.simonbattersby.com/blog/2009/12/less-is-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not all problems can be solved by throwing more resources at them.
A few years ago I worked on a programme with three or four workstreams, with maybe 70 or so people in all. For various reasons, the requirements were relatively fluid, and because the programme was quite large, there was a danger of some design [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Empowerment and accountability on programmes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking last week about empowerment and accountability within a programme structure.
If a programme is going to deliver something of value to a business, the programme manager or director needs to be accountable to the rest of the business &#8211; fine. But the business also needs to give the programme the space and resources [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just start it&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the best thing to do with a project task is to start it&#8230;
Sounds a daft thing to say, but there&#8217;s sometimes a danger of over-planning and over-analysing a task, instead of actually getting on and doing it.
I can think of two personal examples. A few years ago I was managing a complex set of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Project management documentation</title>
		<link>http://www.simonbattersby.com/blog/2009/06/project-management-documentation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I ended up talking for a few minutes about project management and what it isn&#8217;t, and thought I&#8217;d post it here as well.

There&#8217;s a strange sort of mystique about project management and what it involves. Clearly project management is about getting your documentation right &#8211; plans, risk registers, PIDs, issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relations with suppliers</title>
		<link>http://www.simonbattersby.com/blog/2009/04/relations-with-suppliers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some little time ago I came across a job ad looking for a project manager  (and I quote) &#8220;to bludgeon the supplier into submission&#8221;. I&#8217;m not quite sure  whether the agency thought that this was a good way to attract high class  candidates, or what. The sad thing is I suspect it [...]]]></description>
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