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Status reporting might have helped Gypsy Moth IV

You might remember I have written before about the Gypsy Moth IV project. It was a project to restore Sir Francis Chichester’s yacht and sail it around the world. Unfortunately, the objectives of the project have now changed considerably. Gypsy Moth IV ran aground and now the objective is to salavage something good from the…

Blogging for business: the CMR example

The web revamp project started at the beginning of June, and is being delivered in a relatively short period of time. “The site architecture and wireframe design are completed,” Seifer says. “The back end administration modules and front-end design are nearly complete. The site is on a development server, and will be launched within the next 30 days, along with the topic blogs.”

Seeking out answers

Sorry this post is a day late – I have been distracted with visitors and the Eurostar Da Vinci Code Quest. I gave my presentation on Scope Management to the British Computer Society’s Project Management Specialist Group on Thursday, which went well. They were kind enough to give me a souvenir paperweight as a memento…

Strikes and scope

The office is going into emergency mode at the moment in preparation for crippling strikes tomorrow. We’ve received flyers from the unions, an email from HR about how to get to work despite there being only 37% service on some lines. How the RATP have calculated their service that precisely I’m not sure, but given…