Archive for the ‘People Management’ Category
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Ever bought a bag of potatoes at the store, brought them home, then in a few days find one bad potato in it? Experience teaches you that you have to get it out of there quickly- not only because of the smell and the mess, but because it seems that ...
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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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