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 »

Testing Blogjet

{ Posted on Apr 20 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : tools
For a while now I’ve wanted to a desktop app to manage all my blogs without having to keep logging in and out of the wordpress admin system. As good as wordpress is i find it time consuming when managing ...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 »

SXSW ‘09

{ Posted on Mar 23 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : SXSW
Unfortunatly I didn't make South By South West this year in sunney Austin, Texas. I have been able to catch up though thanks to the efforts of some of the Headscape'ers that did make it along. For three different slants on ...Read More »
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