03 Monday Jun 2019
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This is the first in a series of management talking points. The name Leadership 7s has been influenced by the great game of rugby, which is was the emblematic game of my youth and a passion of the home country of my Mom and Dad, Wales.
In fact, much of what I learned about leadership in my formative years came from fundamentally social influences such as rugby union.
So, today I want to address seven talking points that deal with aspects of leadership, coaching and management.
11 Saturday May 2019
Afilonius Rex
Cordoba, 12th May 2019
Ladies and gentlemen, the performance is about to start!
In 1998, as Programme, Product and Competence Centre manager at Hewlett-Packard, I signed the Agile Manifesto.
At that time, I had been using elements of the Agile-method mindset for the best part of sixteen years.
Previously, in 1995 I was trained and certified in Iterations, an iterative and agile-like methodology for building, maintaining and expanding data warehouses and data marts. Continue reading
07 Sunday May 2017
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Martyn Richard Jones
Sunnyvale, CA – 7th May 2017
Listen up Team Leaders, Test Managers, Project Managers, Programme Managers, Portfolio Managers and PMOs.
You have just made the most perfect project plan in the entire history of project planning, and naturally you want to share your baby with the rest of the world.
But, you can’t.
Your perfectly designed, crafted and honed project plan is locked in a box that only you have access to.
Because none of your target audience has Microsoft Project. Continue reading
15 Wednesday Oct 2014
Posted in project management
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Martyn Richard Jones
An advert made for a telecommunications concern in Europe urged people to ‘be more dog’.
It was rubbish and achieved nothing.
Because it said nothing.