26th August 2026
One person came. Monday's show had an audience of one.
Mark
Stringer
Author of Delivering the Impossible. Performer of You Can Write a Book.
Delivering the Impossible
Successful Ways of Seeing Software Project Management
Every project is really a bet, and it happens in a swamp: a mess of stakeholders, hidden constraints and competing interests that no plan drawn up in a meeting room can anticipate. The way through is research. Get working software in front of real users early, even when it's embarrassing, and treat bad news as data.
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Topics
Seeing projects differentlyPosts on the ideas in Delivering the Impossible. Writing a bookWhat I have learned writing one, and what the show is about. Making the showFrom the Fringe listing to the night one person came.Book and show
Delivering the Impossible is the book. You Can Write a Book is the show.
From the blog
26th August 2026
The mother of all sulks is the reason I'm doing the show. A queasy realisation on the walk back from a show.
Bad news is data.
7th April 2026
Actual printed copies of my book are on their way. An invoice from Germany, with stern instructions not to try to pay it.
- In software
- 20 years
- Published by
- Apress, a Springer imprint
- Degree
- Philosophy, St Andrews
About
I was a programmer, then an applications researcher, then a project manager. I have worked with IBM, Xerox and Cambridge University, and performed one-man shows at the Brighton and Edinburgh Fringes.
On stage
- You Can Write a Book2026
- Delivering the Impossible
- The Biscuit Tin and the Biscuit
- Edinburgh Fringe2026
- Cavendish Arms, London2026
- Brighton Fringe