Tips for Teleconferencing
I just read 27 Tips for Teleconferencing. I had only one disagreement with Consider distributing an agenda . I always distribute an agenda. Other than that minor quibble, great article!
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Successful Project Management Has a Cover
The PM book has a title: Successful Project Management: Modern, pragmatic techniques that work. And, it has a cover! Cool, eh? I’m done with this round of editing, and am waiting for Andy’s comments before we go to technical review. Labels: Manage It, Successful Project Management
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Speaking in NZ and AU March 27-March 30, 2007
The lovely folks at Softed are putting on another Software Development conference this March. I’m keynoting and workshopping there this year. Here are the days I’ll be in which place: Tuesday, March 27, in Wellington Wednesday March 28 in Auckland Friday March 30 in Sydney My keynote is “12 Tips for Speeding Up Your Project.”
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Creating a Partnership Between the PM and the Architect
Udi has a great post, Money?! Schedule?! But I
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5 Things You Don't Know About Me
Udi tagged me, so I guess I need to play 🙂 Here are five things you don’t know about me: I take ballroom dancing lessons with Mark. We’re getting pretty good! No, neither of us will be competing on “Dancing with the Stars,” have no fear! We’re both keeping our day jobs. I used to
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Public Workshop: Managing One-on-One, April 2007
Esther and I are offering another public workshop, Managing One-on-One April 23-25, 2007, in Minneapolis. Here’s the flyerwith the details. Questions? Email or call me. Labels: Behind Closed Doors, public workshops
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Codependent Schedule Games Posted
My Stickyminds column, Codependent Schedule Games is up. Enjoy!
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Crossing the Desert Syndrome
I’m close to falling into “Crossing the Desert” syndrome. A project team focuses on an interim milestone, works like the devil to meet that milestone. They meet the milestone, look up, and realize they’re not at the end of the project–they still have to finish the darn thing. They’re living the Crossing the Desert
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Major Book Milestone Reached
I’m happy to report I met my Jan 1 date to finish the manuscript draft for Successful Project Management. I wrote many words last week. So many that I have no idea whether they are good words or not 🙂 I’ve been blathering at my editor, who is probably ready to shoot me if
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Estimating What's Remaining to Finish
Pawel caught me being ambiguous. See his comment, “1. I’ve seen features/fixes which required 2 days to be developed and released.” Sorry, me too. But what I tried to say was this: A feature was estimated to be some duration of person-hours. Those person-hours have come and gone. The feature still requires another 10-12