74: Judge & Jury
November 20, 2009
The ProjectOver to Northcote House first thing on Monday morning to check everything was OK with the Executive Suite upgrade and it was. So many thanks to everyone for an excellent upgrade. There are now just two more buildings to upgrade to complete... Read more...
73: Freedom & Responsibility
November 13, 2009
The ProjectIt was a fairly tense week again, with the upgrade of our top executives’ part of the network on Thursday and Friday. Thursday went quite well but there were some problems with the new network Friday morning. It was a bit nerve-wracking but... Read more...
33: Inner Resources
January 16, 2009
The ProjectNow Roger is back we have started the phase two planning exercise in earnest. Arranging meetings with school managers and technical staff to determine their detailed requirements and sort out their priority in the pecking order. Nortel (the... Read more...
32: Unity
January 10, 2009
The ProjectThe first week back after the long holiday break should have been fairly relaxed but "she who must be obeyed" managed to put my nose out of joint by short circuiting a communications process I had set up at her request. Emma, my boss, managed... Read more...
31: Interventions
January 2, 2009
On a sailing holiday my wife once told me that no woman like’s asking a man how to do something as the result will be “having the tiller snatched out of your hand”. This seems to be as true of project management as of sailing. Harsh intervention... Read more...
30: Force and Conflict
December 26, 2008
Season’s greetings to everyone on St Stephen’s Day (or Boxing Day as it’s known to the Brits). I always through this had something to do with pugilism but just found out it is to do with the aristocracy giving their servants a “Christmas Box”... Read more...
29: The Paradox of Pushing
December 19, 2008
The ProjectThis week was a good week all round. We got the two priority buildings over at St Luke’s (North Cloisters and Baring Court) up and running on the new network and IP phones. The team worked well and the people over at St Luke’s did an excellent... Read more...
28: A Warrior and a Healer
December 12, 2008
The ProjectAnother frantic week at St Luke’s with a few issues with the old network and a file server crashing impacted the project. The team over there made a start with moving people to the new network and installing the VoIP phones and with luck... Read more...
27: Beyond Techniques
December 5, 2008
The ProjectAnother fairly troubled week on the project front with further delays at St Luke’s. First the re-cabling work wasn’t fully completed so that spilled over into this week, then we had problems getting the fibre link between the Streatham... Read more...
26: Centred & Grounded
November 28, 2008
Last time I reviewed this topic I had just returned from a great holiday in Cuba and was starting a new project in Jersey. This time winter is starting to set in and holidays seem a long way away.The ProjectMore delays with the work at St Luke’s but... Read more...