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 […]
The Projects@Work folks have posted another excerpt from Manage It! See Roll With It to read a bit about rolling wave scheduling.
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
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
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
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,
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
While teaching a management class recently, one participant came up to me at a break, and said, “Why are you teaching us project management with this portfolio stuff? This is supposed to be a management workshop.” Portfolio management, determining which projects to fund and when, is management work. The best managers actively manage the
My Eliminating the 90% Done Schedule Game Stickyminds column is up. Enjoy! For those of you who remember the schedule game series from a few years ago, yes, this is one of the games. I added several more and wrote more in Manage It!.
Drum roll please… Manage It! Your Guide to Modern Pragmatic Project Management is available. (I don’t know when it will be available from Amazon. Soon, I suspect.) See the press release. I’m sooo excited. Labels: Manage It, project management