Free UI reviews: World usability day tommorow
Tommorow is the first annual world usability day. Free events all over the world are taking place to promote…
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The data death spiral
Whenever data is misused as the only means for making decisions, a death spiral begins. Blind faith in data…
Book tour wrap-up
Judging by the low number of comments, my book tour travelog has been a snorefest so I’ll wrap up…
This week: Making handoffs
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: Topic #51 – Making handoffs. Here’s this week’s situation: I’m a lead…
Speaking at amazon.com today
Short notice, but if you’re an amazonian working in Seattle, I’ll be speaking at the Friday speaker series today…
Stories from the road: the train experience
Thursday was my first day off: a travel day. A short cab ride and I was in Boston’s historic…
The evil wall of requirements
One of the things stupid people do is this: Person A (aka Mr. stupid) writes a requirements document. He…
Lecture #2 at MIT: Why software sucks
I quickly lost myself in the MIT campus. It was fun to poke my nose into classrooms and departments…
New essay: Teams and stars
You always want the best people, but sometimes the best people don’t fit together into a harmonious team. How…
This week: How to be the wolf
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: Topic #50 – How to be the Wolf. Here’s this week’s situation:…
Four ways to big decisions
Lifehacker has a good essay on decision making. It neatly sumarizes 3 or 4 of the basic and handy…
Good notes on startups
Robbie Allen has a great writeup from the Harvard University Startup school that took place last week. Speakers included…
BT: Lecturing at MIT
When I was a student at CMU, I thought of MIT as the school we wanted to compete with…
BT: Lecture #2 at Boston CHI
One of the fun things about doing no-frills book tours is how much I have to rely on the…
BT: Speaking at Northeastern university
I instructed the cab to make two stops: one back at the hotel to drop off most of the…
Book tour(BT): Tuesday, O’Reilly
Over the next week I’ll be posting about the tour. If this bores the pants off of you just…
This week: Death by autonomy
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: Topic #49 -Death by autonomy. Here’s this week’s situation: I’m an engineer…
Book tour: hurry up and wait
On tour, day 1: Columbus day (10/10). There’s something pathetic about waiting 5 extra hours in your own airport.…
Boston: Social time change, now 8pm
Due to problems with the radar at Logan airport my flight was delayed by 5 hours. A few things…
ArtofPM Book Tour: Oct 11-19, details
Details almost complete. Social night will be at Miracle of science. New boston date added. Still waiting for final…