Commentary on NPR’s Marketplace, tonight (update)
Joy of joys, I was asked to do a commentary on one my favorite shows. Marketplace, an NPR business…
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Thoughts on Google’s 20% time
Everybody loves to think one little trick can make their organization transform into a super creative powerhouse. With the…
Wanted: Software war stories for an O’Reilly book
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Should you ban blackberries at meetings?
I’m volunteering to go to the front lines in Todd Wilken’s war against blackberries in meetings. Lifehacker and the…
Usability is not a verb
I started my career in what is now called UX, but switched within a year for a management role…
Are you a leader or a tracker?
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Does open source help or hurt innovation?
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More on asshole driven development
Hey folks – apologies if you’ve had problems accessing the site. The last blog post on asshole driven development…
Asshole-driven development
[Since this was originally posted commenters have added 100+ addition methods – see the comments below. There’s more commentary…
Patents 2.0? Public patent review
Most people I respect have little respect for software patents – they’ve either read one, have their name on…
This week in pm-clinic: the white knight
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In defense of simplicity
Recently two notable design advocates, Don Norman and Joel Spolsky, challenged the value of simplicity in design, and I’m…
Book review: Dreaming in code
I was greatly anticipating Scott Rosenberg’s, co-creator of Salon, new book, Dreaming in code and was happy to get…
Can CounterStrike teach your team? (Video games as training tools)
One of the many great conversations I had at the Construx summit was about how games like Quake, CounterStrike…
Report from executive summit @ Construx
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at Construx’s annual executive summit: an exclusive small conference of executives…
The product vision test
An old PM trick I learned years ago is that whenever you start something, it’s just as important to…
Can we do better than Gannt charts?
Leisa over at disambiguty laments the absence of Gannt charts in various popular project management tools – In a…
The ideal designer & project manager
One question I’m often asked is what is the ideal designer? – I get this from managers or VPs…
The start-up management inflection point
One common pattern I’ve seen with small tech companies is how their initial success by focusing on self-driven engineering…
This week in pm-clinic: the myths of buffer
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: I’m a lead programmer on a web 2.0’ish startup. Our team of…