Archive for the ‘People Management’ Category

The Imperative of Removing Rotten Fruits and Vegetables

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 ...

How much sausage making do you want to see?

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... ...

Results Matter

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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