Archive for the ‘Project Management’ Category

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 ...

Who Needs to Know This?

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 ...