Where do your ideas die? (With a bad illustration)
I’m stuck in the Vancouver airport, waiting for them to find a new plane. Hard to complain about waiting…
Category: Management
Why Requirements Stink
Rodica pointed me at this article on why requirements stink on ice from the Forrester blog, which asks the…
New O’Reilly book: Beautiful Teams
There’s a new book, soon to be released from O’Reilly called Beautiful teams, edited by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer…
Free $600 ticket to Monday’s MasterClass (San Francisco)
Next Monday, March 30th, I’m teaching my full day course on how to lead and manage breakthrough projects in…
Your project has no goal
There’s a fantastic little essay over on Noop.Nl about some clever philosophical questions about what projects are. The essay…
Q&A from today’s webcast
Thanks to everyone who tuned in – we had almost 300 people according to WebEx. The webcast will be…
When your VP doesn’t understand your job
A common problem experts have is working for an executive who has no idea what they do. The trap…
How to deal with people who are jerks
Christian recently asked, in a comment on how project managers get power: How did you work with those infamous…
Live webcast: How progress happens, Free! March 19th
Next week I’m doing a fun, live, one hour webcast on my latest thinking about progress and innovation. The…
How project managers establish power
I remember the day I started working as a program manager on the Internet explorer team. On my second…
Program Managers vs. Interaction designers
Recently Joel on Software posted about how to be a program manager and he lists UI design as one…
No holds barred tactics for UX in organizations
At Adaptive Path’s MX event this week (my write up here), 5 teams were given an afternoon to attack…
Report from Adaptive Path’s MX ’09 conference
Had a most interesting couple of days at Adaptive Path’s most recent event: MX. First pleasant surprise was the…
New video: How progress happens
The folks at the Tools of Change conference posted a video of my talk this week on How Progress…
No secrets: new project management blog
I get lots of thanks and kudos for pmclinic, a discussion list about real issues managers face, despite the…
Top five things *not* to do when fired
I’ve quit several jobs in my life, I’ve been re-orged into stupid positions I didn’t like, but I’ve never…
Microsoft layoffs: thoughts
The big news in this corner of the world are the layoff announcement at Microsoft. Steve Ballmer’s email drops…
Success factors for program managers
In response to my post on the lost cult of PM at Microsoft, Charlie Owen’s was kind enough to…
Top ten reasons managers become assholes
In response to angry comments about the large number of mean or incompetent people in management circles, here’s the…
The lost cult of Microsoft program managers
Some of you know I worked at Microsoft years ago (’94-’03) as what they call a program manager. In…