Boagworld Christmas Special

{ Posted on Dec 11 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : Friday Fun, boagworld
About 2 minutes before the the show was about to be recorded Paul came into my office as said; " Come on, you are on the show this week. It's the Christmas Special!" I was a little concerned that I had had no ...Read More »

Warm Body Syndrome – reprise

{ Posted on Dec 08 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : headscape, management, recruitment
Back in March, when I first had an attempt at launching this blog, I published an article called "Warm Body Syndrome". Despite nobody actually reading it at the time (except Sam Barnes; thanks Sam) it is my most popular post via google searches. As ...Read More »

Project managers: the great ambassadors of our time

{ Posted on Dec 01 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : communication, management, project management, team
A big, if not the biggest, part of my job as a web project manager is dealing with clients. This is actually the part of the job I enjoy the most and see the client as, very much, a part of the ...Read More »

Team Building: Not Just a Frivolous Expense

{ Posted on Nov 18 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : morale, team
We are in the middle of arguably the deepest recession in modern history. When times are tough it becomes a necessity to cut costs and save money. Often the first thing to go are the fun, social, team building activities. After all, ...Read More »

Confidence is king

{ Posted on Nov 09 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : culture, leadership, management, solutions, team
Confidence plays an important role in many areas of our lives. You will often here it said of footballer, for example, that they are a confidence player. I know from my own inability to play golf that I become marginally less rubbish if I have confidence in ...Read More »

Reduced to stereotypes

{ Posted on Nov 03 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : boagworld, headscape, management, project management, team
I'm often asked questions about the differences between working with designers and developers. Today an article I wrote for boagworld.com was published which takes a brief look at this question. Don’t Reduce Your Designers And Developers To Stereotypes Read More »

It’s OK to not know.

{ Posted on Oct 22 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : culture, leadership, management, team
"I don't know" is actually a valid answer to a problem. "Let me think about that" is not an excuse to waste time. "I think I should discuss this problem with my peers" doesn't present you as incapable. No need to be infallible We ...Read More »

Managing Risk

{ Posted on Oct 16 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : headscape, project delivery, project management
Risk, in the land of project management, is anything that could potentially get in the way of your project going according to plan and being delivered on time. There are two types of risk; those that you can do ...Read More »

Make a path together

{ Posted on May 11 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : leadership, team
Working with a team can be hard work. It's made even more difficult when you are not all pulling in the same direction. This is true whether you are running a small project team or a whole organisation. You have two ...Read More »

Boagworld Case Study: wiltshire farm foods

{ Posted on Apr 23 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : boagworld, project delivery, release
The project I seem to spend most of my days on has recently had a new release.  We are really quite proud of it (it's very pretty) and so I thought I would add  little note here so that you ...Read More »
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