This week in pm-clinic: mystery of personal goals
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: In the company I work for, we have personal development discussions between…
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Replacing the desktop (not yet)
Every so often the urge surfaces to replace parts of GUI, like Menus, toolbars and the desktop. This popular…
Mistakes in technical leadership (Hacknot)
For the last half-hour I’ve been jamming on essays at hacknot, on leadership and management in the tech-sector. The…
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The basic rule for managers who are trying to “build morale” or “team build” is this: any event outside…
More on preventing innovation
From Tyler Blain, the Top ten tips on preventing innovation: His list goes further than mine in cynicism, in…
Love and hate: the management of Mark Cuban
Where do you draw the line for passion? Watching Mark Cuban’s behavior as owner of Dallas Mavericks, currently vieing…
Berkun down under: Sept. workshops in Australia
Working out the final details with the fine folks at Step two designs to teach my workshop on Leading…
Hard conversations
An interesting link from Reforming project management: Harvard Business school writes about Morning meetings – a daily meetup where…
This week in pm-clinic: Shifting a culture
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: I’m a development lead in a high powered web development company. We…
This week in ux-clinic: Does help matter?
This week in the ux-clinic discussion forum: I’m an information designer and developer, aka technical writer. I’ve recently been…
The Power to Stop Innovation
As part of the research behind The Myths of Innovation, I read a tall stack of books with the…
Tales of Vista development at MSFT
An interesting opinion on Vista’s project management issues from a former development manager on the Vista team (now a…
Small tales of technology failure
Every now and then I’ve seen airport arrivals boards showing only the blue screen of death – This time…
This week in ux-clinic: Keep ’em seperated?
This week in the ux-clinic discussion forum: I’m a lead designer (manage team of 5 usability and design folks)…
This week in pm-clinic: A management puzzle
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: As a break from situations, for this week here’s a PM puzzle…
Do you need radicals for change?
An interesting post at Anil Dash: A Malcom and a Martin. He suggests that change happens when there are…
Saving the world by laptop
The most challenging design works involve big constraints, noble goals and few rewards – and one candidate for design…
Free book for startups: special offer
(This is offer is closed – thanks for playing) Are you, or is someone you know, currently working full…
Essay: Advice for new managers, part two
In part one, I hit on the topics new managers need to know before they shoot themselves, or others,…
Great management in progress: NBA playoffs
I’m aware of the risks of stretching topics to the point of transparency, but I have to note the…