Dave Liebreich sent me this email: I’m working with the new hire in our group, bringing him up to speed on our stuff. He noticed that I brought in my copy of “Manage It!”, and asked if it was to help me manage him. [pause for laughter] Never work for someone who refers to you […]
I have a new column up at Recruiting Trends. See Using Writing and Speaking to Recruit Candidates, Part 1. You can’t leave comments there, so please do so here.
I’ve been busy the last few weeks (as you can tell by the paucity of posts :-). I’ve been working with project managers, Scrum Masters, and technical leads who have been thrust into the role of Scrum Master. Here are some examples of the problems these nice folks have had: “When I want to use
Adam, from Write That Down, likes Manage it!. Here’s what he has to say: There is a great book called Manage It!, by Johanna Rothman. She does not disappoint, and really gets into the nitty gritty details about managing projects. While this is billed as a “project management” effort, it really does apply to product
I’ve been talking with a few hiring managers and a few senior candidates. The hiring managers are afraid to look at some senior people because they’re concerned the senior people will want salaries that are higher than the companies want to pay. The senior people are concerned that they can’t get interviews because the hiring
Contents: This month’s Feature Article: Discovering and Maintaining Your Project’s Heartbeat, Part 2 Announcements =-=-=-=-=- Feature Article: Discovering and Maintaining Your Project’s Heartbeat, Part 2 Last month, I discussed how you to generate and maintain a project’s heartbeat–a project’s rhythm. If you missed that issue, see https://www.jrothman.com/pragmaticmanager/heartbeatpart1.html. This month, you might want to consider some
A cynical senior manager said, “It feels as if I’m stuck between the traditionalists and the agilistas. We can’t use phase-gate anymore, because it’s not ‘agile’ enough. And the last time, when that multisite project tried Scrum, they failed miserably. Isn’t there a right approach to our projects?” A project doesn’t have to use just
Read Eric Sink’s Exception Handling in Running a Business. He says: In entrepreneurship, there is no substitute for good judgment. I would modify that to “In management, there is no substitute for good judgment.”
I have a new column posted at Stickyminds: What Project Managers Need To Know About Testing. Also, check out the podcast related to the article.
I recently spoke with a recruiter new to the high tech field. “So many of these people have suspect experience on their resumes. They’ve been laid off, and then out of work for several years. I can’t believe they would be good for our organization.” If you’ve worked anywhere since 1999, you know some “failures”—people