CoffeeCAST – #16 – Business Program Management

Welcome to the 16th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today I welcome Kim a Program Manager at a large Financial Services organization.  Kim came from the IT ranks and then moved onto the business side where whe is running a fairly significant program.  Toda

CoffeeCAST – #15 – Open Mark

Welcome to the 15th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. This week we are podcasting from the York Mills and Bayview Starbucks.  Sitting across from me today is Mark Evans, Senior Technology Reporter at the National Post on Technology and Telco and an active bl

CoffeeCAST – #14 – A Visit to India

Welcome to the 14th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. This week we are podcasting from the Bloor and Jarvis having just finished a Senge Circle meeting.  I still have most of my Starbucks Venti red-eye and Mark has a new cup of tea.  Mark Dymond of IBM is ba

CoffeeCAST – #13 – Bob Schaffer

Welcome to the 13th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today we have the opportunity to chat with two people, Robert Shaffer of Robert H. Shaffer and Associates and Jim Hayward of Project X.  Jim and Bob have known each other for a while and when Jim and I st

CoffeeCAST – #12 – Open Discussion

Welcome to the 12th Episode of Coffee Conversations (now to be called CoffeeCAST) with Stephen Hayward of Project X. This week we are podcasting from the Starbucks at Bayview with Michael Ianni-Palarchio (MIP) where we decided to have a spontaneous CoffeeCAST on a variety of subjects.

CoffeeCAST – #11 – Teradata

Welcome to the 11th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today talking with me in the Starbucks in Mississauga I have Tim Dickey of Teradata.  In his review of some of the conversations and posts he noticed that a lot of our posts have been about building

CoffeeCAST – #10 – Project Management 2

Welcome to the 10th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Join me in welcoming for the first time Mike Lemmon a Sr Project Manager, who is here to join me in a brief discussion on Project Management and more specifically some of the things you need to do a

CoffeeCAST – #9 – Metaphors and Technology

Welcome to the 9th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today I welcome back Jim to join me in a discussion on Metaphors and Technology.  In a post we did a couple of weeks ago and again this week, we endeavoured to use metaphors to help ground the variou

CoffeeCAST – #8 – Active Data Warehousing

Welcome to the 8th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. This week we are podcasting from the Canadian Teradata User Group Meeting in Toronto Canada.  Graham and I talk about our different views having attended the Business and Technical streams talking ab

CoffeeCAST – #7 – Project Management Discussion

Welcome to the 7th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. It’s the first Tuesday of April, we all made it through April fools day.  Today I have with me Mark Dymond, Director of Application Services at IBM who is responsible for one of their largest C