We’re on our way home from a ski vacation. Mark’s the driver; I’m the navigator. This morning (in the dark at 5:30am), Mark said, “I don’t need a GPS. I already have a voice to direct me.” I, of course, cracked up. Labels: humor, personal
A number of my clients and colleagues are struggling with the problem of bringing people into their organizations. In Hiring the Best …, I recommend the buddy system for bringing people on. I wrote a little article, How2 Create a Buddy (Informal Mentoring) Program. But maybe you didn’t know that, or can’t figure out how
I plan on about 6 hours of work in a regular day. That’s project work, not answering the phone, email, making arrangements for workshops or consulting or speaking, or invoicing, or any of the other things I do. Nope, that’s just project work. The other half of that question is how many regular days
In the PM (it’s actually called “software methodology, but I assign a project, so students can experiment with methodologies) class I teach at TGI, I ask the students to create (and then use) a project dashboard, so they have a quantitative way to see their progress (or lack thereof). The students presented their dashboards
Glen Alleman in What’s Wrong With This Picture says this: dentifying, sequencing, and assigning durations to tasks is NOT the role of the Project Scheduler, it is the role of the project team, along with the Project Scheduler. The Work Package Manager, the Customer, the entire team that is accountable for delivering the business
Guy in his We love Scrum at GigaSpaces, says something critical: […]we’ve been working in the past couple of months on upgrading our automated testing framework. I’ve been assigning five of my top engineers and architects on a project with the objective to provide the development team fast feedback and monitors on quality. Now
If you haven’t read Duane Nathaniel’s thoughtful comment on What Happens When You Can’t Finish What You Wanted in an Iteration?, do so now. Duane makes some great points. RUP has iterations; they’re not timeboxed–they’re deliverable-based. (Take a look at the link that Duane points to.) In the RUP, an iteration results in a deliverable.
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!
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
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.”