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Commentary on NPR’s Marketplace, tonight (update)

Posted on March 17, 2008April 20, 2014 in Microsoft, On Tour, Software/Web developmentby Scott Berkun

Joy of joys, I was asked to do a commentary on one my favorite shows. Marketplace, an NPR business…

Thoughts on Google’s 20% time

Posted on March 12, 2008 in Creative Thinking, Innovation, Software/Web developmentby Scott Berkun

Everybody loves to think one little trick can make their organization transform into a super creative powerhouse. With the…

Wanted: Software war stories for an O’Reilly book

Posted on January 28, 2008 in Management, Software/Web developmentby Scott Berkun

Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene, authors of Head first PMP and Head first C++, are working on a new…

Should you ban blackberries at meetings?

Posted on December 6, 2007 in art of project management, Management, Software/Web developmentby Scott Berkun

I’m volunteering to go to the front lines in Todd Wilken’s war against blackberries in meetings. Lifehacker and the…

Usability is not a verb

Posted on December 3, 2007November 28, 2015 in design, Software/Web development, usabilityby Scott Berkun

I started my career in what is now called UX, but switched within a year for a management role…

Are you a leader or a tracker?

Posted on October 29, 2007 in Management, Software/Web developmentby Scott Berkun

We have truly messed up our job titles. Somehow, somewhere, the job title project manager became lame. I don’t…

Does open source help or hurt innovation?

Posted on August 16, 2007 in Innovation, Software/Web developmentby Scott Berkun

Over at the Jem Report, Jem Matzan had some great questions for me about how my studies of innovation…

More on asshole driven development

Posted on June 26, 2007 in Management, Software/Web developmentby Scott Berkun

Hey folks – apologies if you’ve had problems accessing the site. The last blog post on asshole driven development…

Asshole-driven development

Posted on June 19, 2007February 26, 2020 in Management, Software/Web developmentby Scott Berkun

[Since this was originally posted commenters have added 100+ addition methods – see the comments below. There’s more commentary…

Patents 2.0? Public patent review

Posted on March 6, 2007 in Innovation, Software/Web developmentby Scott Berkun

Most people I respect have little respect for software patents – they’ve either read one, have their name on…

This week in pm-clinic: the white knight

Posted on January 29, 2007 in Management, PM-Clinic, Software/Web developmentby Scott Berkun

After a few weeks on hiatus, the pm-clinic is back. With a vengeance. New tales of management challenges and…

In defense of simplicity

Posted on January 10, 2007 in design, Software/Web developmentby Scott Berkun

Recently two notable design advocates, Don Norman and Joel Spolsky, challenged the value of simplicity in design, and I’m…

Book review: Dreaming in code

Posted on January 8, 2007 in Book reviews, design, Management, Software/Web developmentby Scott Berkun

I was greatly anticipating Scott Rosenberg’s, co-creator of Salon, new book, Dreaming in code and was happy to get…

Can CounterStrike teach your team? (Video games as training tools)

Posted on October 25, 2006 in Software/Web development, Teaching/Trainingby Scott Berkun

One of the many great conversations I had at the Construx summit was about how games like Quake, CounterStrike…

Report from executive summit @ Construx

Posted on October 25, 2006 in Management, Software/Web developmentby Scott Berkun

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at Construx’s annual executive summit: an exclusive small conference of executives…

The product vision test

Posted on October 3, 2006 in Innovation, Management, Software/Web developmentby Scott Berkun

An old PM trick I learned years ago is that whenever you start something, it’s just as important to…

Can we do better than Gannt charts?

Posted on September 28, 2006 in Management, Software/Web developmentby Scott Berkun

Leisa over at disambiguty laments the absence of Gannt charts in various popular project management tools – In a…

The ideal designer & project manager

Posted on September 28, 2006 in design, Management, Microsoft, Software/Web developmentby Scott Berkun

One question I’m often asked is what is the ideal designer? – I get this from managers or VPs…

The start-up management inflection point

Posted on August 7, 2006July 17, 2013 in Innovation, Management, Software/Web developmentby Scott Berkun

One common pattern I’ve seen with small tech companies is how their initial success by focusing on self-driven engineering…

This week in pm-clinic: the myths of buffer

Posted on July 24, 2006 in PM-Clinic, Software/Web developmentby Scott Berkun

This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: I’m a lead programmer on a web 2.0’ish startup. Our team of…

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