Behind Closed Doors is available for preorder. The book is at the printer, and we expect hardcopies to start shipping late September. In the meantime, if you can’t wait (and I hope you can’t :-), you can buy the combo-pack of the PDF (now) and the book (later in September).
If you haven’t read the classic Places to Intervene in a System, take a little time and do so. My colleague Don Gray has written an afterword that relates the article to software product development. I’m realizing that the way I do assessments uses these interventions. I have to think more about how to write
My ISP is not allowing emails to my domain name address (again!), so I will be changing ISPs this week. And, I’m chauffering Daughter#1 to colleges, so don’t expect anything from me this week.
If you’d like to hear some of what’s in Behind Closed Doors, Andy has recorded an mp3 of one of our sidebars, “The Fable of the Rising Young Manager.” BTW, I thought it was thrilling the first time I saw my name in print as an author. Now that I hear our words, it’s just
I’m in the middle of a new activity for me: visiting colleges with Daughter#1. (She’s a senior in high school, trying to decide where she wants to attend school next year.) When I was thinking about college (university to those of you across the pond), my father told me I could go up to
Not every product has smoke tests (a series of tests you can run after each build to make sure the product works well enough to continue development and testing). Smoke tests provide early feedback to developers about their work. So, for the last several years, I’ve been suggesting to my clients that as they
We’re in the last stretch of finishing Behind Closed Doors, and now we’re fixing/regenerating pictures. When Esther and I made the pictures originally, we wrote them on flip charts and took pictures of them. (We were talking about information on flip charts — made sense to us.) Well, it turns out the pictures are
I have an article on Computerworld.com, Three Tips to Managing Across the Globe. Please leave comments here (because you can’t leave comments there.)
In the past few months, I’ve been teaching a variety of project management and hiring workshops. And (surprisingly to me), we’ve had discussions about whether someone is a manager or a lead. Some organizations have an aversion to calling people “managers.” Instead, they call them “leads.” One organization called their project managers “people lead.”
I don’t know how many managers tend to be extraverts (in the Meyers-Briggs sense of the word), but I suspect more managers tend to be more extraverted than introverted. If you’re not sure which one you are, ask yourself this question: Do you need to speak in order to think (extravert) or to think before