http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/taxonomy/term/13702/all?article-type=&term=&organisation=&project=&author=martin%20white&issue= RSS feed with Ariadne content related to specified tag en http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue55/white-rvw <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="/issue55/white-rvw#author1">Martin White</a> reviews a book that sets out to provide very practical guidance on managing software projects.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>After some fifteen years of managing a wide range of projects I joined Logica in 1989 to head up one of the company's largest projects. Before I even unpacked my briefcase I was sent on a three-day project management course during which I discovered that almost everything I had done in the past was not good practice. It was a salutary experience to sit there amongst less senior colleagues and get the answers wrong. The course paid off some ten years later when I started a major project in Washington two days before 9/11 and managed to deliver on time and on budget.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue55/white-rvw" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue55 review martin white intranet focus ltd content management intranet library management systems prince2 software Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0000 editor 1403 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk