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Monthly Archives: February 2005
Coaching is a Management Obligation
Managers have an obligation to coach employees to help employees obtain better performance. However, managers choose when and whom to coach. Managers also have an obligation to provide feedback — which is not a choice. Every employee deserves feedback … Continue reading
Who Wants to be a Technical Lead?
In his comment, Rich explains, “I am directly managing 12 employees and 14 contractors doing application support and maintenance for something like 12 or 15 software products. I have most of my old team, and 6 other teams. I … Continue reading
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Tagged leadership, management, one-on-one
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Is It Worth Reading Employee’s Email?
I just got off the phone with a colleague who discovered his boss is reading his email. The employee, whom I’ll call Dave, is hurt, unhappy, angry, and frustrated. “Yes, I know my email isn’t private, but what did … Continue reading
CEO Success
The two articles I found most telling about Carly Fiorina’s departure from HP are Worst. CEO. Ever. and Carly Fiorina and management. High tech organizations require a vision (from the CEO), a budget, and room for innovation. Maybe I … Continue reading
Functional Managers, Project Managers, Matrix Managers
In the Hiring the Best… book, I wrote this (p. 253): Functional managers organize the work of similar people (people performing a given function). They hand off their deliverables to another group. Project managers coordinate the work of numerous … Continue reading
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Tagged management, project management, vision
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Organizing for “Efficiency”
I gave a talk at the local PDMA group called “Setting Expectations Between Engineering and the Three PMs”, attempting to clarify how the roles of product management, program management, and project management are sometimes confused, and to suggest practices … Continue reading
Podcast Available at Vision Thing
Last week, Effern of The Vision Thing interviewed Hal Macomber, Clarke Ching, and me about project management. He made a podcast at The Sound of Vision: 02/04/2005. I was pleasantly surprised at how well Hal’s, Clarke’s, and my conversations … Continue reading
Managing Defects by Severity and Frequency
I’m familiar with managing defects by severity (how bad the problem is for the user if the user encounters the problem), and by priority (what’s the business value of fixing this problem), but I had lunch yesterday with some … Continue reading
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