I had the pleasure of speaking with two different colleagues today, both with the same dilemma. They are near the end of their projects. They don’t quite have enough time for one round of final testing–but if they’re lucky and the stars align, and they don’t find too many problems, they can still (maybe) […]
Greg Wilson posted a lovely review, Managing, Reviewing, and RESTing. I particularly like this part: Her new book is her best yet: personal without being chatty, and informative without being dry, it covers everything a technical manager needs to know about running a development project. Thanks Greg, and I’ll make sure my editor sees
I just finished updating all my email newsletter (Pragmatic Manager) pages. I hadn’t announced my most recent newsletter, Making Waterfall (a Serial Lifecycle) Work For You, Part 1 (Vol 4, #1). I’ve reorganized the pages, so go here to read all the previous articles.
The Projects@Work folks have posted another excerpt from Manage It! See Roll With It to read a bit about rolling wave scheduling.
I reported on my progress cleaning up my office Cleaning Up the Office, Round 2. I hadn’t let it get that bad since that round of organizing, but I did ask for help from Daughter #2 in May, to buy some bins and drawers to continue my never-ending attempts to stay organized. The past 8
Tech Republic has the estimation chapter from Manage It!. There’s a great Manage It! review at Book Review: Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management. Michael Fransen enjoyed Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. He posted a review. The session he took at Agile 2007 was “Hiring for an Agile Team,” based
Last week, at Agile 2007, I had a fascinating conversation about geography/directions with a colleague. I explained that I needed to visit someplace and walk or drive around until I really understood where everything was. He said, “Oh, you think in postcards.” I can read a map, and write down directions. It all makes
Some lovely reviews of Manage It! were posted when I was traveling last month, and I didn’t remember to blog them. Sigh. Wagnerblog has a great review, focused the on schedule games chapter. (That chapter was a blast to write.) My good friend an colleague, Ken Flowers, wrote this review. Here’s the sentence I
Kevin says in his comment: Business analysis is how you figure out what done means. Project management is how you figure out how to get to done. I disagree. Business analysis is the elicitation and definition of what everyone else wants to have in the product. Project management is understanding what’s driving the project,
The good folks at Projects@Work have posted an excerpt from Manage It!. The excerpt is Make Your Organization Work for You. There’s no facility for comments there, so do leave comments here. < p class=”blogger-labels”>Labels: Manage It, Projects at Work