A Project Initiation Document (PID), is a PRINCE2 term representing the plan of approach in project management. It is assembled from a series of other documents, including the Business Case, the Terms of Reference, the Communication Plan, the Risk register, the Project tolerances, the Project plan, and any specific project controls or inspections as part [...]
Weekly scribbles
Round-up of recent articles, blogs,tweets and general insights related to digital corporate communications.
It’s been a pretty uninspiring week on the web for me… so not so many hot links to share.
Project management
- A new Web Project Management blog on the block, from Naftali Goldsmith - http://rightstartpm.wordpress.com
- How to suck as project manager (via @pawelbrodzinski)
- Why projects are late. Perfection v practicalities (via @backfromRed)
Technology / Web standards
- US Government proposes accessiblity rule changes (UK, watch out)
Testing
- Write up on Mark Micallef’s talk on testing the BBC News site to follow soon.
Account management
- Steve Jobs pitching ‘Think Different’ to an audience in 1997. No ’slides’ - still cool (via @BBHLabs)
Digital strategy
- Data visualisation (@Ted Talk) - David McCandless turns complex data sets into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections.
- Editorial Calendars and Style Guides
Design
Web conferences and seminars
- Matt Edgar’s summary of dConstruct 2010
- dConstruct name badges go green (nice design!)
- Announcing Lanyrd, the social conference directory
Upcoming dates for our diary
- Every month - London Pub standards
- 09 2010 - Flash on the Beach
- 09 2010 - London Web standards - HTML5 (sold out)
- 09 2010 - iPhone App Development
- 10 2010 - Future of Web Apps
- 11 2010 - Adding Hypermedia to your webapp
- 12 2010 - Creating mobile websites
- 01 2011 - New Adventures in Web Design (highly recom.)
- 03 2011 - SXSW 2011
- TBC 2011 - Future of Web Design
- TBC 2011 - atMedia
And on that note
Just ask yourself before you commit. WWJD?

