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Another Great Review for Manage It!
Steve Berczuk (author of Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration—I’ve only read pieces), has a great review of Manage It! One nice nugget: This book has pragmatic advice on how to make progress and issues visible, how to … Continue reading
Two More Great Reviews of Manage It!
I discovered two more great reviews of Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management. The first is a brief explanation of the Jolt awards. Take a look at Winners of the 18th Jolt Product Excellence Awards & Recipients … Continue reading
When You Don’t Need a Schedule
I’m particular about two things: calling a prose plan a project plan and calling a Gantt chart (or yellow stickies) a schedule. One of my colleagues emailed me last week, explaining he’d spent a week developing a project plan and … Continue reading
Posted in rollingwave, schedule
Tagged Manage It, project management, release criteria, timebox
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Great Stickyminds Review of Manage It! Posted
Take a look at the Stickyminds review of Manage It! Jennifer says: I highly recommend this book to all project managers, from novices to those with more experience. This is an incredible resource that should be referred to frequently for … Continue reading
Public Workshop Announcement: Manage It! Pragmatic Project Management
I’ve signed all the paperwork, so now it’s official. I will be offering a public project management workshop September 22-24, 2008 in Waltham, Massachusetts. The workshop syllabus is at Manage It! Pragmatic Project Management Workshop. Everyone receives a copy of … Continue reading
Why Does a Meeting Need Buckets?
I’ve been working with managers of varying stripes, and a middle manager was proudly explaining how he deals with getting people’s attention at meetings. “I get a big bucket and put it on a chair next to the door. Everyone … Continue reading
Plan a Better Project
Dave Christiansen wrote a lovely article, Plan a Better Project. He mentions Manage It!. Thanks, Dave.
Aha Moments
I’m still catching up on posting links where either I or other people had aha moments: TMI’s One-on-Ones discusses a bunch of things about one-on-ones, something Esther and I have been talking about forever (as well as in Behind Closed … Continue reading
Video Interview Posted at InfoQ
Deb Hartmann interviewed me (video and audio!) at Agile 2007. We mostly talked about schedule games from Manage It. (We briefly discussed Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management and Hiring the Best Knowedge Workers, Techies & Nerds.) For those … Continue reading
Posted in HIring the Best Knowledger Workers, interview
Tagged agile, Behind Closed Doors, Manage It
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Manage It! Won a Productivity Award
I’m pleased and excited to announce that Manage It! won a Jolt Productivity award. They announced the awards with all the productivity awards on one slide, and we were supposed to stand up when our names were announced. They then … Continue reading
