I’m leading several sessions at SD Best Practices, Sept 11-14, 2006. Here’s the list: Monday, Sept 11: Coaching Your Peers and Staff to Excellence (half-day experiential) Wednesday, Sept 13: Predicting Project Completion Wednesday, Sept 13: Develop Your Interviewing Skills Thursday, Sept 15: Managing the Project Portfolio Thursday, Sept 14: Successful Software Management: 15 Lessons
There’s a fascinating email thread started by David Anderson about What would Agile Auditing Look Like?. Part of the discussion stems from what the definition of an audit is. Audits are about compliance to a defined process. Do we need audits? Sure, for some projects. I would very much like to know that any project
A few weeks ago at the “Hiring for an Agile Team” session, the group generated a number of behavior-description questions. I promised I would post them, so here they are: “Tell me about a time you made a mistake.” Using the context of shipping/releasing a product late: “What did you change?” (Notice the past
Want to save time on your next project? Improve working relationships? Understand what contributed to your success–or what didn’t? You’ll need a retrospective to do these things, and if you want a great retrospective, you’ll buy a copy of Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen. A retrospective provides
I received some great comments on Why Puzzles and Riddles Discriminate. Adam has a terrific list of the things he’s looking for when he uses “puzzles and/or brainteasers and/or random programs to test”: Do they give up right off the bat? Do they ask questions or sit silent pondering? Do they make different attempts or
I’m very pleased to be speaking at another Kennedy Audio Conference. See information at Building a Hiring Strategy.You’ve noticed that I’ve been blogging about some of the hiring strategies. Well, there are 12 strategies that I’ve noticed, and I won’t blog about the rest until after the audio conference. I do hope you join me.
I’ve been using Bloglet for email subscribers. Today, I decided it was time to move on to Feedblitz. If you subscribe via email, you should received this posting (and all other future postings).
A number of people still subscribe to this blog with an email subscription. I had used Bloglet to do process the emails, but the service didn’t always work. And to be fair, Bloglet was a free labor of love 🙂 I’m now using Feedblitz, assuming I didn’t make any mistakes. As always, feel free to
It’s been quite the Monday so far. My office toilet started spewing water, a cabinet door fell off one of the cabinets in the kitchen, and I’m trying to back up and duplicate my hard disk because both latches on my Powerbook broke at the Agile conference and I need to send my computer
Several years ago, a colleague emailed me, asking how to keep sponsors involved. My colleague was using company-mandated phase-gate lifecycle with long project durations (18-24 months). I’d recommended providing a project dashboard and showing the sponsor progress. My colleague was stumped–the dashboard wasn’t particularly helpful until they were in the testing phase and it