May 2007

management, MPD

Helping People Move On

George Dinwiddie pointed me to this great column, Fired With Enthusiasm. I have a talk that I’ve given at a bunch of Software Development conferences, called “Successful Software Management: X Lessons Learned,” where X started at 8, and is now up to 16. Lesson # 11 is “Fire People Who Can’t Do the Work.” I […]

MPD

Time for Innovation in Timeboxes?

  As part of some recent consulting and training, one of the project managers asked, “How do you make time for innovation in timeboxes? If everyone’s busy all the time, how can you allow people time to think for real innovation?” Good question. I asked how people had time for innovation now. The PM wasn’t

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