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Category: PM-Clinic

This week in pm-clinic: A management puzzle

Posted on June 12, 2006 in PM-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: As a break from situations, for this week here’s a PM puzzle…

This week in pm-clinic: Management at start-ups

Posted on May 1, 2006 in Management, PM-Clinic, Uncategorizedby Scott Berkun

This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum – The softer side: I’m working at my third tech sector start-up…

This week in pm-clinic: Managing the middle talent

Posted on April 24, 2006 in PM-Clinic, Uncategorizedby Scott Berkun

This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum – The softer side: (Note: please remember that just because I post…

This week in pm-clinic: The softer side

Posted on April 17, 2006 in PM-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum – The softer side: Most of our PMs have some type of…

This week in pmclinic: Mutiny

Posted on April 10, 2006 in PM-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum– Mutiny: Mutiny This is one for the history books – I have…

Pms vs. Programmers (This week in pmclinic)

Posted on April 3, 2006 in Management, PM-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum– PMs vs. Programmers: Welcome to April (If you’re in the USA, time…

Quality is job #15 (This week in pm-clinic)

Posted on March 27, 2006 in Management, PM-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum– Quality is job #15: Here’s this week’s situation: We just shipped v2…

This week in pm-clinic: Plan for the plan

Posted on March 20, 2006 in Management, PM-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum– Plan for the plan: I work at a near v1 release start-up…

This week in pm-clinic: the “poof” of concept

Posted on March 13, 2006 in PM-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum– preventing “poof” of concept: For months I’ve been pushing my VP to…

This week in pm-clinic: the boss who won’t listen

Posted on February 13, 2006 in PM-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum– The boss who won’t listen: Months ago I informed my boss of…

This week in pm-clinic: managing our time

Posted on February 6, 2006 in PM-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum– Managing our time: Dear pm-clinic: I’m a recovering Getting Things Done (GTD)…

This blog: weekly situations – yay or nay

Posted on February 1, 2006 in PM-Clinic, UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

I run two discussion mailing lists – one on design and usability (uxclinic) and one on project management (pmclinic).…

This week in PmClinic: Help a randomized team

Posted on January 9, 2006 in PM-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum How to help a randomized team: “My team is trying to transition…

PM Clinic: Nominations for think-week

Posted on December 12, 2005 in PM-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum we’re building a think-week reading list. Here’s are details: One smart thing…

PM-Clinic: Where to put the business folks

Posted on December 5, 2005 in PM-Clinic, Uncategorizedby Scott Berkun

This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: Topic #56 – Where to put the business folks. Welcome to the…

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