I’ve been re-reading “Clients for Life” by Jagdish Sheth and Andrew Sobel and saw a very nice piece of advice about ensuring that your message to your clients and potential clients is heard and remembered. The book, which is very good and has been on my recommended reading list for quite some time, has a [...]
Agile Management
July 30, 2007 By 4 Comments
I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading lately on Agile Software Development and Agile Project Management and have come to the conclusion that the folks that created the Manifesto for Agile Software Development could have just as easily named it the Manifesto for Agile Management (with a few minor changes of course). If you’ve [...]
Using Microsoft Project is not Project Management
July 27, 2007 By 14 Comments
MS Project has become an industry standard for project planning and I think it has value for a project manager, but a project manager should not rely on MS Project or any other software do to do their job for them. Software doesn’t manage projects….people do. Steve Shu has a good blog post over on [...]
I'm tired – a rant
July 25, 2007 By 7 Comments
Bear with me folks…I feel like a little rant on a couple of topics ranging from Recruiting to Blogs to Books. Sorry for the long post. I’m tired of receiving 50 emails & phone calls from 50 different ‘recruiting’ companies for the same position. Example – A local company is looking for a Project Manager [...]
Agile & Iterative Development
July 24, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I just finished the book “Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide” by Craig Larman. This book provides a very good overview for managers of the Iterative & Agile Development methods. I liked this book…it isn’t too in-depth…perfect for someone who needs to know the basics about Scrum, XP, UP and other Iterative/Agile methods. Two [...]
