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	<title>Cathryn Symons</title>
	<link>http://www.itpm.cathrynsymons.com</link>
	<description>Delivering IT Projects</description>
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		<title>Juggling Projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just taken on a new project, which will keep me busy about 8-10 days a month until the end of March.  I&#8217;m still available to take on another small-medium sized project, which needs a project manager 2-3 days a week.  
For many projects,  a full-time project manager is overkill, and so balancing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itpm.cathrynsymons.com/2007/11/19/juggling-projects/</link>
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		<title>First Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freelance Project Managers are expected to come onto a project and be ready to get into the driver’s seat immediately. They join a project midstream, at any stage in the project lifecycle and with the project in any state from well-run to completely out of control.  It can be like getting on a moving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itpm.cathrynsymons.com/2007/11/13/first-day/</link>
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		<title>Playing Poker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some time now, I&#8217;ve done estimating with developers using a technique called Wideband Delphi.  It&#8217;s fairly simple and is an excellent way of making sure that a good range of developers are involved in the estimates.
The designer, lead developer or, as a last resort, project manager, breaks the work up into smallish units [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itpm.cathrynsymons.com/2007/10/17/playing-poker/</link>
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		<title>Certified ScrumMaster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent six months this year as Project Manager for a major website upgrade, working with a team of developers and web staff using the Agile methodology, Scrum.  For a fairly traditional project manager, this was something of an eye-opener.  A very able, empowered team who are used to working together to deliver [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itpm.cathrynsymons.com/2007/10/04/certified-scrummaster/</link>
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		<title>Do you need a Project Manager?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I love about freelancing is that every few months, my work at a client comes to a natural close, and its time to look for something else.   I&#8217;ve handed over my latest project to the permanent staff member who has been working towards being ready to take on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itpm.cathrynsymons.com/2007/09/03/do-you-need-a-project-manager/</link>
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		<title>Design Patterns Explained, by Alan Shalloway and James Trott</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first software engineering book I&#8217;ve read in years.  As a project manager, I rarely become involved in software design, except perhaps to sit in on reviews, but it is useful and interesting to improve one&#8217;s understanding of the other important disciplines involved in projects.
Design patterns had their origins in architecture, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itpm.cathrynsymons.com/2007/08/16/design-patterns-explained-by-alan-shalloway-and-james-trott/</link>
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		<title>Brainstorming Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve used interactive, online tools like Google Spreadsheets often, but I&#8217;m about to start a little exercise with a colleague and we&#8217;re looking for an online brainstorming / mindmapping tool.
I&#8217;m looking for something which :

is free
allows multiple people to access the same map at the same time across the internet
allows notes, sketches and links (I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itpm.cathrynsymons.com/2007/08/03/brainstorming-online/</link>
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		<title>Chucking it over the wall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Through the life of the project, you involve the people in IT Operations who will be supporting it.&#160; They&#8217;re keen to help, and everyone says all the right things.&#160; If things go very well, the right documentation is produced, perhaps someone from the service desk or a service manager is seconded onto the project team [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itpm.cathrynsymons.com/2007/02/28/chucking-it-over-the-wall/</link>
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		<title>FOWA 2007, day two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The day starts inauspiciously with sales pitches thinly disguised as serious talks from Adobe and Microsoft.&#160; The wifi still isn&#8217;t working and someone postulates the theory that the failure to repeat last year&#8217;s booing is down to the lack of a backchannel for coordinating dissent.&#160; BT had promised to try and get it running, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itpm.cathrynsymons.com/2007/02/21/fowa-2007-day-two/</link>
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		<title>Impressions of FOWA 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today and Wednesday, I&#8217;m at the Future of Web Applications conference in London, mixing with geek entrepeneurs.&#160; 
The speakers are a parade of young Americans.&#160; Kevin Rose, of Digg fame, turns thirty tomorrow.&#160; These geeks are remarkably articulate.Its a lot more about web business than the applications themselves, which is something of a relief.&#160; I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.itpm.cathrynsymons.com/2007/02/20/impressions-of-fowa-2007/</link>
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