Four ways to big decisions
Lifehacker has a good essay on decision making. It neatly sumarizes 3 or 4 of the basic and handy…
Category: Management
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…
This week: Figuring out lessons to learn
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: Topic #47 – Figuring out lessons to learn. Here’s this week’s situation:…
Book review: Deep Survival
The book Deep Survival: who lives, who dies and why, by Laurence Gonzales, asks the question: why do some…
This week: managing up to executives
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: Topic #45 – Managing up to executives. This week’s situation comes from…
Manifestos and more personal mba
Changethis.com has a new set of manifestos up and they’re good. There’s an update on the personal mba idea,…
This week: when the party’s over
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: Topic #44 – When the party (project) is over: We’ve been working…
The 3 ways to work
As an exercise, I’ve tried to distill philosophies of work into 3 possible approaches. Dividing things into threes can…
This week: Assigning programming work
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: Topic #43 – Assigning work to programmers : I’m a former programmer…
Essay: work vs. progress
So much time seems wasted doing work that doesn’t help progress things forward. Why does this happen? What can…
This week: Managing the 2nd class project
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: Topic #42 – Managing the 2nd class project: I am tasked with…
Mark the date: Free webcast on the art of project management
Dr. Dobbs Journal Magazine will be broadcasting a live netcast by yours truly on the art of project management.…
This week: you make the call
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: Topic #41 – You make the call : You’re the project manager.…
Berkun Live: Podcast on leadership and management
Which one of these doesn’t belong: George Gilder, Mark Cuban, John Markoff (NYTimes), David Hills (Looksmart CEO), Chris Andersion…
This week: Loose cannon programmers
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: Topic #40 – Loose cannon programmers: I’m a team lead and have…
New essay: how to learn from your mistakes
If you’re doing something interesting, mistakes are inevitable. How you learn from your mistakes defines what kinds of mistakes…
This week: How to reorganize a team
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: Topic #39 – How to reorganize a team. Here’s the details of…
Talent vs. Experience
This week in pm-clinic: Talent vs. Experience
Discussion summaries now available
The weekly discussion summaries from the first 30 weeks of pm-clinic are now up. These summaries distill each week’s…
Ending the wars between testers and programmers
One of the long standing tugs of war in the software world is between those who write code and…