Category Archives: Manage It

Strengthening Writing

  During the past few week, while editing Successful Project Management, I had an opportunity learned to discover other ways I weaken my writing. I already knew about “get” and “put” and “do”–any words you can command a computer–are weak … Continue reading

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Book Status

Successful Project Management is off for copyediting. While reviewing, Esther and Daniel found some of my take-space words: So and Now. I just did a find-in-project (thank goodness for TextMate) and excised most of them. We’ll see if the copyeditor … Continue reading

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Multitasking is Conflict Avoidance

  There’s a great quote over at The pernicious thinking behind multi-tasking. Note the admission that required multi-tasking is an implicit means to avoid conflicts around setting priorities. I’ve been doing a bunch of multitasking talks this year (and suggesting … Continue reading

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Writing Status Report

I’m in what I hope is final editing for Successful Project Management. (I”m still doing gross editing, final copyediting is one more stage. But I’m not supposed to change ideas in that stage :-) If you want to know how … Continue reading

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Successful Project Management Has a Cover

  The PM book has a title: Successful Project Management: Modern, pragmatic techniques that work. And, it has a cover! Cool, eh? I’m done with this round of editing, and am waiting for Andy’s comments before we go to technical … Continue reading

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