Why do we need a Project Definition Document? Isn’t the project already defined by the Project Charter…? Well, yes and no. The Charter initiates the project and defines it at Executive Summary level, for its executive readership. The PDD is […]
Author: Dave McClure
Co-founder and Director of TriMedia Middle East and Broadcast specialist for the company.
Project documentation – Risk Management
Risk & Issue Management is a process that runs through the entire project from inception to completion and is most important in the implementation phase. The process requires two documents, the Risk Management Plan (RMP) and the Risk & Issue […]
Project documentation – Request for Proposal (RFP)
The Request for Proposal (RFP) is the single most important pre-award project document. A well written RFP, supported by a well managed RFP process, greatly increases the likelihood of a successful project. The key word here is process. When the […]
Project documentation – The Project Charter
This is the first in a series of posts each discussing one of the must have documents without which any project is likely to fail. The Project Charter is the document that breathes life into the project. Everyone knows that […]
The best of all possible worlds?
All’s for the best in the best of all possible worlds. (orig: Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles). This was the maxim of Dr. Pangloss in Voltaire’s political satire, Candide. Whatever misfortune befell, Dr. Pangloss […]
A rational approach to music theory
Written music conveys information from the composer to the performer who then presents it to the listener. Some of this information is essential and some is extra. In simplest terms, essential information is ‘what to play’ and extra information is […]
The Mystery of Booey-Gooey’s Tower (solved)
A friend was telling me about his unfortunate car accident, a rear-end shunt, that occurred, he said, on Al Bidda, “near Booey-Gooey’s Tower”. Now I know Al Bidda pretty well. I walk the length of it every Friday lunchtime on […]
Playing it safe
As directed, I avoided breathing the vapours. I chose to risk the less preferred option of a well ventilated area indoors; the recommended option, outdoors, was ruled out by heavy precipitation. I did not smoke. (This was easy for me, […]
Fake news or false precision?
I read this today (I won’t say where because I have no wish to embarrass the writer or the publication): In the heart of Africa, energy giant Total is about to build the biggest heated oil pipeline in the world. To […]
The Professor, the Owl and the Pussycat
Our Professor of Physics was fond of explaining the difference between the Owl and the Pussycat. “The Pussycat” he would intone, “when cast into the middle of a pond, is powerless (once in flight) to avoid his fate. We see […]