This week in pm-clinic: Haunted by ghost employees
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: A handful of managers that have worked together for years are good…
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Liveblogging the IDEA2006 conference
Rather than torture y’all with my first foray into liveblogging, I’m writing live comments, insights, and brlliant notes on…
Maps of war: animation of middle east history
The folks over at mapsofwar.com have put together an exception little visualization of the history of the middle-east, showing…
Doodles, drafts and innovators
There’s a great online exhibit at the Smithsonian Institute, exploring the history of various innovations – focused on the…
Where designers should go: Seattle IXDA ’19 edition
[Updated 1-31-19] I love Seattle and enjoy showing people why. When visitors interested in design or engineering come to…
Why innovation efforts fail
As I’m on the home stretch of finishing the first draft of the book, I’ve read nearly 100 books…
Worldchanging: Ideas for a better future
The worldchanging folks, who run a great blog and non-proft org, are now releasing their first book: Worldchanging: a…
This week in ux-clinic: Managing usability time
This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: I’m a single usability engineer serving over 100 programmers across a dozen…
This week in pm-clinic: Killing the zombie project
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: I’m a pm for a web development company – I have what…
How to create & manage ideas: the course
This fall I’m teaching a course for the University of Washington in the Masters of Communication in Digitial Media…
The product vision test
An old PM trick I learned years ago is that whenever you start something, it’s just as important to…
This week in pm-clinic: Being shown the door
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: After two years as a general manager, building a team of 25…
This week in ux-clinic: the usability police
This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: I’ve been asked by the boss to do a usability review of…
Writing with the wolves
I restrain myself from writing often about writing – I’m too junior at the task to contend with the…
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…
How to run a great unconference session
It’s easy to assume that unconferences, the popular trend in tech-sector events, require little thought on the part of…
This week in ux-clinic: Designing for novices and experts
This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: We’re a start-up of veteran designers and software developers, building a cutting…
This week in pm-clinic: Keeping top talent
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: For about 16 months my big problem. in forming a new team,…
Why Gutenberg is overrated as an innovator
No, not Steven Guttenberg. The other one. Johann Gutenberg’s name appears on most Western lists of the most influential…