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#397 – PM COMMUNICATIONS: ORDERS, ORDERED, OR ORDERLY EXECUTION – MALCOLM PEART

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Orders and being ordered can mean many things to many people.  In biology order concerns the taxonomic rank for classifying organisms.  More generally speaking it concerns the arrangement of people or things in relation to each other in some form of pattern, sequence, or method.  Alternatively, it can mean an authoritative command or instructions that are, typically, conveyed in a particular sequence.  When ordering a meal, for example, it’s normally done in the order in which the food will be served, but that’s always best clarified in some countries! Continue reading →

#395 – PROJECT DOCUMENTS: OBVIOUSLY WRONG OR PATENTLY ACCEPTABLE – MALCOLM PEART

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Project documentation; the bane of some people’s lives, for other’s their raison d’être.  Documentation is essential and its written word can ensure effective communication so there is as little misunderstanding as possible.  Requirements will be definitive, obligations and liabilities will be unambiguous, and instructions will be clear. Continue reading →

#393 – COVID VACCINATIONS: MARKETING 101 OR 1984 MANIPULATION – MALCOLM PEART

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There is no doubt that the appearance and subsequent outbreak of COVID wreaked havoc on the world’s population humanitarianly, medically, socially, politically, and economically.  The death toll, albeit far less than predictions, -unfortunately happened.  The declared pandemic is now considered to be endemic.  We are told that the lockdowns, travel restrictions, and social distancing helped but, above all, the vaccines ‘saved us’, as will the boosters as more information comes to light and more data is gathered, and statistics are revisited. Continue reading →

#392 – CAN PM COMMUNICATIONS KILL COMMUNICATION – MALCOLM PEART

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Video Killed the Radio Star…went the 1979 music video by The Buggles.  MTV used this as their first ever video in 1981, but despite the prophecy and MTV’s 40 ongoing years, radio stars aren’t dead.  Radio revolutionised popular music, vinyl discs gave us today’s disc jockeys but even though technology evolves it demonstrates that the fittest will survive and not everything will be killed. Continue reading →

#390 – PROJECT MANAGEMENT DASHBOARDS: DATA, DECISIONS, & HORSESH*T – MALCOLM PEART

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A project controls colleague of mine recently wrote:

“Really, I never had to deal with delivery directors / managers who did not understand or appreciate the effort which goes behind a digital data fed dashboard”

Sarcasm, according to Oscar Wilde, may be the lowest from of wit but it’s the highest form of intelligence.  While being humorous at the expense of those who demand dashboards it’s a sad truth that most demanders have no idea as to the effort required in producing a dashboard.  For them dashboards can be instantly tailored to any whims or fancies at the flick of a switch or the stroke of a key on a keyboard. Continue reading →