"Roll With It" Posted
The Projects@Work folks have posted another excerpt from Manage It! See Roll With It to read a bit about rolling wave scheduling.
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Cleaning Up the Office, Round 3: A Slightly Agile Approach
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
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Sightings of BCD, Manage It!, and Hiring the Best…
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
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Do You Think in Compass Directions or Postcards?
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
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Catching Up with Reviews of Manage It!
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
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Project Managers are Not Business Analysts
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,
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"Make Your Organization Work For You" Posted
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
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Too Simple a Definition of a Project
Via Raven’s Think you know what a project is?, there’s a pointer to What is a Project? Think Again!. Garry, the author likes David Allen’s definition of a project: < blockquote>A project is any outcome you
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Gantt Charts and Agile
I don’t have much use for Gantt charts; if you’ve determined the tasks in enough detail and far enough out to really see the critical path, you’ll be wrong in 24-48 hours. If you don’t put in that much detail, it’s a pretty picture, but not enough information to manage the project. (Of course,
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Nice Review of Manage It!
I’m pleased that here are several nice reviews of Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management. See the most recent: The Library’s post. Labels: Manage It, project