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Monthly Archives: March 2005
Spending Time With the Schedule or the People?
In one of my classes earlier this week, one project manager explained that he spent an entire day each week working the Gantt chart in a scheduling tool. He has a project of roughly 20 developers, a few testers, … Continue reading
How Do You Explain Pair Programming?
I’m teaching project management (and some hiring) workshops in Israel. I’ve caught up with timezones, so I may even be able to post this week. I attempted to explain why pair programming works to some skeptical project managers last … Continue reading
Coffee (and Tea) are Cheap
I’m in lovely Perth, Australia this weekend, staying with some friends of mine. The husband was explaining how he makes sure his department buys coffee, tea, milk, sugar for everyone in the department. “It costs us about $2000 to … Continue reading
Forced Ranking is Stupid
Workforce Management has tons of articles full of content. So I gotta wonder why they posted Forced Ranking Could Improve Business Performance. In the article, it says, “Forced ranking, the study finds, is more successful in the first several … Continue reading
Links to Remember
You’ve probably seen these elsewhere, but since this blog is for me too, I don’t want to forget about them: Why Crunch Mode Doesn’t Work: 6 Lessons. I particularly liked the origins of the 40-hour work week. Conquering the Cubicle … Continue reading
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Succession Planning or Working Yourself Out of Job
In Who Wants to be a Technical Lead? I promised I’d talk about succession planning. Here’s the general idea: as someone who works for a living, your job should be to work yourself out of your current job by … Continue reading
Market-Driven Management
Via Pragmatic Marketing, I found In Search of Overhead Heroes” by George Tillman, who advocates thinking like a business even if you’re supporting the business, not contributing directly to revenue. Certainly, you’re supposed to align yourself and contain costs. … Continue reading
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