On the use and abuse of Technology and its Management from the perspective of an academic at UCL specialising in Project Management, Systems Engineering and Space Science/Technology.

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

The Report overturns: not many hurt.

Here's a story column about avoiding academic reporting styles in live projects, getting the punchline out there first, so to speak.

Academic style (background, problem, details, then consequences) is still, I feel, necessary outside of the regular status meeting. The rigour of in-depth analysis and reporting helps projects (i.e. trains people) to make rapid decisions (reported in a journalists' inverted pyramid style) in the tussle of project work.

I still feel sorry for the bull though.

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