Archive for the ‘People Management’ Category
Monday, May 4th, 2009
My company's CTO has a saying about building software. He says that it's a lot like making sausage. There's a level of detail you want to know in order to be happy with it- are you using quality ingredients, when will I get the finished product, is the facility clean... ...
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
Johanna Rothman posted recently over on her blog about Results versus tasks which I highly recommend. I've writtten on this before myself here, here, and probably elsewhere, but Johanna offers a nice real-world example. As a PM, manager, or any other insane person, you cannot expect people to finish tasks ...
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
How many times has this happened to you:
A key task in the critical path of your project is completely out of control. It's not getting done, what is done is all wrong, and everything is late. You go and talk to the person who is in charge of it, and ...
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