Report from executive summit @ Construx
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at Construx’s annual executive summit: an exclusive small conference of executives…
Category: Management
This week in pm-clinic: Haunted by ghost employees
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: A handful of managers that have worked together for years are good…
This week in ux-clinic: Managing usability time
This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: I’m a single usability engineer serving over 100 programmers across a dozen…
This week in pm-clinic: Killing the zombie project
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: I’m a pm for a web development company – I have what…
The product vision test
An old PM trick I learned years ago is that whenever you start something, it’s just as important to…
This week in pm-clinic: Being shown the door
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: After two years as a general manager, building a team of 25…
Can we do better than Gannt charts?
Leisa over at disambiguty laments the absence of Gannt charts in various popular project management tools – In a…
The ideal designer & project manager
One question I’m often asked is what is the ideal designer? – I get this from managers or VPs…
This week in pm-clinic: Keeping top talent
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: For about 16 months my big problem. in forming a new team,…
The Office sitcom meets Microsoft
If you like the original british series w/David Brent, you’ll dig this: Part1 and Part2 (link from Ario, Rbanks)
This week in pm-clinic: The need for two faced managers
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: I manage a rapid prototyping team in for a major consumer software…
This week in pm-clinic: Dealing with the powerful but annoying
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: The manager for my team is one of the company founders. He’s…
Essay: How to detect bullshit
We all like to think we’re good at spotting BS, but how is it done? and why do people…
This week in pm-clinic: painless ways to cut features?
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: Our team has a monthly process called add/cuts, where all the head…
How do you find good people? (PM)
This is #7 on the list of questions I get asked most often ($10 if you can guess #1).…
The start-up management inflection point
One common pattern I’ve seen with small tech companies is how their initial success by focusing on self-driven engineering…
CHI 2007 – We want you
CHI 2007 , in San Jose, CA 4/28-5/3 2007, is the big dog of UI conferences – it’s one…
Two kinds of people: complexifiers and simplifiers
There are several thousand ways to complete the sentence “There are two kinds of people, those that…” And in…
This week in pm-clinic: interviewing managers
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: Times have changed at my company and I’m looking for a management…
How honest should you be?
On NPR Seattle (stream) right now is a show exploring the danger of white lies. Philosopher Immanuel Kant believed…