I need some help with my blog template. Now that I’ve moved to each-entry-is-its-own-page, the individual entries are vertically centered on a page. That means you need to page down to see the entry. I’d prefer to have the entry at the top. I thought I had a “valign” somewhere, but I can’t see it. […]
I taught a project management workshop earlier this week. I include a small project as part of the workshop, so participants can practice planning, organizing, and a little steering of a project in a safe setting. One of the project teams thought they were going to implement their project (a mobile), with an assembly
I’m catching up on my blog reading, and Udi Dahan’s Programmers don’t make projects fail is a keeper. Make sure you read to this part: My philosophy is followed with an operative task: If you ever have to do more than 2 hours of overtime in a week, let me know. I understand the 2
I’m in Albuquerque this week at a debriefing workshop. When I teach, I don’t just read PowerPoint slides. I do use handouts (and frequently PPT) to guide what I’m going to say. However, I add lots of stories, and use interactive activities to drive specific points home to the workshop participants. The way to extract
My Stickyminds column, What’s on Your Not-to-do List? is posted. Please do leave comments there (or here if you like). This column is based on one of the ideas in Behind Closed Doors.
We talk blithely about the “crisis” in software development or IT. But most of the time, that’s just projects over schedule, over budget, and under featured. Real project crises are about people. I heard that one of my clients died today. She was a young-ish project manager. I’d never met her in person (she
Esther and I are editing (the next-to-final pass, we think) the book this week, integrating comments from our reviewers. We are very fortunate; our reviewers provided wonderful feedback. And some of the feedback we’re not going to use — at least, not in this book. One of the hardest things to do, whether it’s
I’ve changed a few things about this blog: I enabled each post to be its own archive. You can click on the title or on the “link” in the byline. You should be able to use the little email icon to email a blog entry to someone. Please let me know if you find any
I maintain the AYE web site as part of my responsibilities this year for the conference. I post the news, the new articles, and do the general updating. Monday, I posted one of Don Gray‘s articles, Shifting the Burden – Whose Monkey Is It? Except, Don and I had both made a mistake. Don
It’s been a tough week, and it’s only Wednesday morning. We’ve had a bunch of family illnesses — nothing deadly, but difficult to diagnose with long term effects. A very old friend of the family died. And because it’s June, the kids have a gazillion things with school and sports. I’m not quite back