Your project has no goal
There’s a fantastic little essay over on Noop.Nl about some clever philosophical questions about what projects are. The essay is called Your project has no goal, and he explores why human beings tend to place reasons and explanations into things that are way more about us than about what’s really going on. Includes fun references to Taylorism, and The Selfish Gene.
I doubt I agree with all his points, but who cares – this was the most interesting project management related read I’ve come across in awhile. Good stuff:
Your project has no goal – Noop.Nl
Noop also has several lists you might want to check out, including the top 100 blogs for developers, and the top 100 best software engineering books ever.
Actually, the essay is entitled “Your Software Project Has No Goal”. Whether or not it is generalizable to other kinds of projects I am not willing to opine…
PS. There are projects that are about things other than software !
Hi Greg: Point taken. But I didn’t think anything in his post was exclusive to software, certainly not the most interesting aspects of his comments.
Scott, thanks for this! :)
On a completely unrelated sidenote: when are you going to join the Twitter crowd? Some of us are eager to see your voice in the Twitter sphere…