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Monthly Archives: May 2005
Finding My Writing or Task Muse
Frank sent me the music baton. I don’t do chain letters, but I thought this was cute. Sorry, Frank, I’m still going to relate it to work.The official stuff: Total volume of music on my computer: 1128 songs (or 3.2 … Continue reading
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Bugs vs. Defects, Reprise
Well, all the comments on my No More Bugs post got me thinking. To answer a few comments here and elsewhere, I’m not trying to blame developers for being human and making mistakes. When I was a developer, most of … Continue reading
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Rumors and Making Meaning
Esther just called me from the Orlando airport to tell me she heard a fascinating rumor: Supposedly, she and I aren’t talking! After I was done laughing out loud, we examined this a little. We’ve facilitated sessions together at previous … Continue reading
Posted in management
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No More Bugs
During an email conversation last week, I suggested that my client change his naming of “bug” to “defect.” He asked why. People don’t create bugs, but people create defects (or problems or faults). Bugs crawl in or fly in from … Continue reading
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Even Unintentional Pairing Detects Defects
I was sitting on the couch was organizing a database last weekend, with daughter #2 sitting next to me. I was creating a script to go through each record removing a field’s contents and adding new contents to another … Continue reading
Schedule Games Affect Your Ability to Manage Programs
Months ago, Debbie asked this question, “Do you have any comparative analysis on the disciplines (project management and program management) that you would like to share?” To me, program management is the ability to take a project or a … Continue reading
Acknowledgements for Schedule Games
I’ve learned about schedule games from lots of people and projects. Here is the list of acknowledgements, as I remember them. If I left anyone off, please let me know. We had a discussion of schedule games on the AYE … Continue reading
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Schedule Game #11: The Schedule Tool is Always Right
You’ve probably gathered by now that I’m not enamored of project scheduling tools. And since I most often do rolling wave planning, I don’t normally need a scheduling tool. But, here’s another true story. I was coaching a PM … Continue reading
Schedule Game #10: We’ll Know Where We Are When We Get There
One of my clients claimed he had ADHD. He had trouble keeping projects focused on one goal. I’ve known him for a while, and he didn’t have this problem when he was a project manager. Nope, he made sure … Continue reading
Schedule Game #9: Schedule == Commitment
You and I know that the schedule is an estimate. The project schedule is your best guess about when the project team will reach which milestones, and when the project may complete. But a schedule is not a prediction; … Continue reading
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