My Car 2012

I have been studying/interested in Electricity powered vehicles, Nicola Tesla, and 'Over-unity' energy ideas for a while now. See my Blog Who keeps killing the Electric Car.

So I am so excited to see the upsurge of interest and practical introduction of 'mass' produced electric cars.

I own a Tesla Model S Saloon Car by 2012

On Parenting

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults."
-Frederick Douglass

The law of project focus

If you want to be among the best at anything, you need to focus on something, and to focus on that one thing!

If you want to ensure a project happens and is completed on time, in budget and to specification, you need to focus on that project!

If you walk around town with a little shovel, you'll just end up digging thousands of little holes, not one big one. - The law of the little shovel

When project staff allow project sponsors to keep tasking them with new initiative after new initiative, prior to the completion of existing incomplete project briefs.
They may succeed with some...
rarely all...
and it is almost certain...
non will hit their original, Time, Cost and/or Quality targets.

The important thing to remember is that projects by definition are stand alone entities. Yes they may share common resources, Yes they may be part of the same programme and yes they may share the same powerful and influential Sponsors and Stakeholders. These facts actually demand a greater PROJECT focus, more myopic attention to resource availability and even more rejection of scope creep. Just because someone has the authority to ask for something, does not magically create the wherewithal required to produce the result.

Get Project Focus by ensuring:
Project ownership [personal power]
Pay, promotion and peer esteem is linked to project success [commitment]
Project relevance [passion]

Maintain Project Focus by:
Keeping to the project plan
Earning the trust and 'buy in' of stakeholders and sponsors
Accurately and regularly communicating the risks and opportunities of the project
Quantifying the value to be lost by unmanaged project variance

If NO is not an option, close the original project and demand the required resources for the new project(s), because that's what you have, a new project.

Failure to observe the Law of Project Focus means the project is being managed by luck not judgement and success is a lottery.

Observing the Law will mean a surprisingly large number of projects get delivered with consistently high levels of success and blessedly low levels of stress.

Do You Know Wolverhampton?

The Express & Star was founded in Wolverhampton in the 1880s by the Scottish-American millionaire Andrew Carnegie and a group of radical Liberal Party members, including Thomas Graham.

The Express & Star is an evening newspaper based in Wolverhampton, England, publishing 11 different editions covering the Black Country, Birmingham and areas of the wider West Midlands from Tamworth to Kidderminster.

The newspaper had a daily (Mon-Sat) circulation of over 130,000 in the second half of 2007.^[1]

The Express & Star is also one of the few independent newspapers now operating in the UK having been under the continuous ownership of the Graham family almost since its inception.

Its associated website expressandstar.com was launched in 1997.

Two other papers are published by the Express & Star, The Chronicle, which is a free weekly newspaper and The Sporting Star, published every Saturday.

wikipedia.org - Express_&_Star