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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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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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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

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Take Time to Think

I’m catching up with my blog reading. Several posts caught my eye, all dealing with taking time to think: When you take time to think between sessions, the sessions may go faster. You’ll almost certainly have a better outcome. (Esther and I learned this on Behind Closed Doors.) See Ron Jeffries’ take on thinking: Shooting

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