The architecture at Google
There’s a great little article on Metropolis all about the design and architecture of the Google campus. The authors…
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Quick kill project management
Friend and fellow O’Reilly author Andrew Stellman has a new article up on what he calls Quick Kill project…
What innovation means: a short report
[Post updated: August 2015. Also see the best definition of innovation] The word innovation is used in so many different…
The 3 People In a Room Test
Does your head hurt when you read business books? It shouldn’t. I rarely read business books anymore since they’re…
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…
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…
How to Prevent Bad Morale Events at Work
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…
Hard conversations
An interesting link from Reforming project management: Harvard Business school writes about Morning meetings – a daily meetup where…
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…
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…
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…
The things you never hear
The other day, at drinks after visiting a company, I chatted with some of the team. The star topic…
License to manage? (On PMP and certification)
Do you know what PMI is? I bet half of you don’t. I didn’t when I became a manager…
This week in pm-clinic: Management at start-ups
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum – The softer side: I’m working at my third tech sector start-up…
Ten things Bad VPs never say
Being an executive is a tough job, no doubt. However there are a set of things any rational person…
The victimization ratio
Interesting, if cynical, post over at next-microsoft. He mentions part of his criteria for chosing a job is how…