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 15 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 [...]
Bad Timing…or Bad Leadership?
July 20, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Sally Lemke, a nurse in the Chicago area, was named VNA Foundation “Super Star” on July 10th. She’ll be without a Job on July 30th according to the Chicago Sun-Times.Ms. Lemke is, by all accounts, a great person and a great nurse. She’s volunteered her time to making the world a better place for a [...]
Email Overload
July 12, 2007 By Leave a Comment
CIO.com has an article titled “Intel’s E-Mail Overload Solution” that describes the steps Intel is taking to combat email overload. What I found interesting was the amount of time Intel’s employees were ‘wasting’ every week on due to email….a number that is probably pretty accurate for most organizations. The article states: What they found: “Knowledge [...]
“Cube Rules” on Networking
July 10, 2007 By 2 Comments
Scott Herrick has a very good post on his Cube Rules blog titled “Networking for Shy People” that is definitely worth the read whether you are shy or not. One of the clearest descriptions Ive ever read of networking is provided by Scott when he writes (emphasis is mine): First, learning that “networking” isn’t something [...]
The “Project Cartoon”
July 6, 2007 By Leave a Comment
If you haven’t seen the “Project Cartoon”, you need too. The original can be found here at http://www.projectcartoon.com and they’ve now given people the ability to create their own versions of the cartoon. Check it out if you have a few minutes to waste. Thanks to the 800-CEO-READ Blog for the link. I took it [...]
Charles Green on “Credentials”
July 4, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Charles Green over at “Trust Matters Blog” has a pretty good post titled “Credentials, Elitism and Web 2.0” that discusses the ‘credential’ problem in the world today. Take a read of Charles’ post…it has a very interesting discussion about some ‘library traditionalists’ vs Wikipedia that is good all by itself…but the best part of the [...]
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