Anton has published a lovely set of comments about Manage It!. I especially liked this quote: i just feel so comfortable with her take on project management – there is no agilist zealotry or flashy theatrics. Also see the review from the Java User Group. The summary there was: In conclusion I suggest this book […]
Projects@Work published a sidebar from Manage It!, Responsibility is Authority.
PM Boulevard has my 5Qs on Agile, and Manage It! review. (They like it!) You might need to log in to see all the content.
Bob Payne interviewed me in this podcast at Agile 2007. We mostly talked about project management, some specifics from Manage It!, and also talked about hiring for an agile team.
I’ve posted last month’s Pragmatic Manager email newsletter, Making Waterfall (a Serial Lifecycle) Work For You, Part 2. I’m working on #3, which should be out this week.
I’ve converted to WordPress as my blogging platform and now have changed the URL for the blog and the feed. You can see this post because of magical redirection. The URL is now https://www.jrothman.com/blog/htp. The feed is now https://www.jrothman.com/blog/htp/feed. Let me know if you have problems.
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve migrated from Blogger to WordPress (with the excellent help of Kim Black). I expect you can still read the blog and that the feeds are still coming through. If you’d like to update to the new addresses, here they are: Managing Product Development is now at https://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/ The
My most recent Stickyminds column is up: Are Your Pants on Fire, or Do You Suffer from Split Focus?. There’s also a podcast on that page. You can leave comments there or here.
In For a more productive team, put the pressure on (within reason), Chris Hoover recommends a little pressure to help the procrastinators un-procrastinate, and help people get their work done on time. I only sort-of agree. Everyone has their own amount of pressure, and what’s good for you is not good for me. But working
I met a software developer recently, who studied physics as an undergrad. He’s now working in an IT organization on financial processing software. He’s part of the interviewing team for his organization. They’re trying to hire 6-7 more developers before the end of the year. He told me, “I like to ask a question about