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Give your team room to express themselves

{ Posted on Jun 02 2010 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : culture, headscape, management, project delivery, project management, team
Paul Boag, one of the founders and directors of Headscape, once said; "We specialise in sh*t projects." If, like me, you run projects for a normal, every day web agency. If you do not always get the opportunity to be working with the latest cool ...Read More »

The Joel Test: An insight into Headscapes recruitment policy

{ Posted on Feb 23 2010 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : headscape, recruitment
The Joel Test no.11 Published: February 21, 2010 16:00 The application process is there for two reasons. One, for the employer to get to know if the employee is a good fit. And second for the employee to get to know ...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 »

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 »

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 »

This week on Boagworld.com

{ Posted on Mar 26 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : boagworld, headscape, project management
Paul obviously ran out of interesting people to interview this week and so rolled out the perennial plan B. Me. If you want to listen me talk about the joys of Project Management the checkout the latest boagworld.com podcast. http://boagworld.com/podcast/158/ Read More »

Solutions not problems

{ Posted on Mar 09 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : culture, headscape, management, project delivery, solutions, team
It's very easy to indentify when something is wrong. It doesn't matter if it's a small one person task or a large project being undertaken by a whole team of people, finding issues is normally...  no, I would say, always ...Read More »

The rant line

{ Posted on Feb 12 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : culture, headscape, management, team
It's good to get things off your chest. Inevitably, during the course of a project things will annoy you. A customer will insist on something stupid, a college will make a hash of something which will add to your work ...Read More »

BBSRC Sustainable Bioenergy Centre

{ Posted on Jan 27 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : headscape, release
A new site for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has just been released. Designed and built by Headscape using clever CMS4 technology for those who are interested. [caption id="attachment_86" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="BBSRC Sustainable Bioenergy Centre"][/caption]     http://www.bsbec.bbsrc.ac.uk/ Read More »