Curious Rami

Since I started my MBA, I have been working toward improving my project management skills. I always take notes on what works and what doesn’t. I ended up compiling a list of high level tips (in a presentation format) covering:

1. Project’s Time
2. Project’s Cost
3. Project’s Scope
4. Requirements Change
5. Risks
6. Design Stage
7. Documentation
8. Communication
9. Productivity
10. Team Work
11. Asking For Help
12. Developer Testing
13. Lessons Learned

Download the presentation and leave a comment with your tips and suggestions. Project Management Tips For Developers

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Growing up, my parents always measured my performance in school by how I did in math and English. Although they encouraged me to learn music, it was only as a hobby and always next to math and English. As an engineer now, I very much appreciate what they did. However, after watching this very interesting and entertaining talk by Sir Ken Robinson, I wonder, what little Rami would have achieved if his creative mind had been stimulated further.

I used to like Steve Jobs’s presentation style (not so much Apple and its products though). And now I know why! Jobs’s uses that same catch phrases over and over again, and they are catchy until you realize that he repeats them all the time. Ah stevey, you no longer amaze me

Here are Job’s catch phrases:

Unbelievable
Huge
Pretty cool, huh?
wouldn’t be…
Boom!
Mere mortals

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/11/03/steve-jobs-doing-what-he-does-best/

The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds and few have the imagination to see beyond them.

Here is an exciting commercial from BMW:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Ny5BYc-Fs

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have written, produced and performed two hilarious videos for Microsoft UK, here they are:

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugVRtth1e44

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HARMAiRPx2g

Dick Hardt; Founder & CEO of Sxip Identity; has a very unique presentation style. Dick uses only one word or symbol in every slide of his presentations. It is a pretty cool idea. This style makes the presentation very entertaining. I know I couldn’t take my eyes off his presentations. I bet this style requires a lot of preparation.

Dick has two presentations on his website:

OSCON 2005 Keynote - Identity 2.0 http://identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/

ETech 2006 — Who Is the Dick on My Site? http://identity20.com/media/ETECH_2006/

The next time you have to present try out this style and let me know what you think, I know I will give it a try the first chance I have.

Guy Kawasaki posted a few good presentation tips on his blog; they are:

• Have something interesting to say.
• Cut the sales pitch.
• Focus on entertaining.
• Overdress.
• Don’t denigrate the competition.
• Tell stories.
• Pre-circulate with the audience
• Let them make contact with you.
• Speak at the start of an event.
• Ask for a small room.
• Practice and speak all the time.

The full post is available at: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/01/how_to_get_a_st.html