Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
If you are interested in software development…read this book. If you aren’t interested in software development…read this book. If you’ve always wondered why software development is such a tough thing to manage and predict completion…read this book. Did I say that you should read this book? The book is not a detailed “how to”…it is [...]
I just finished reading The Strategic Project Leader: Mastering Service-Based Project Leadership by Jack Ferraro….not a bad book. In section two of his book, Mr. Ferraro writes: In project management, leadership is desperately needed; leadership that is adaptable, perceptive, timely, meaningful, authentic, and unselfish. This one sentence sums up the core of The Strategic Project [...]
Interesting study released by McKinsey has just been released titled “How companies respond to competitors: A McKinsey Global Survey.” The study, which is surprisingly concise, has some interesting information, but as all things McKinsey, there is a sales pitch involved. The main ‘abstract’ of this report says: Management theory suggests that companies facing serious competitive [...]
If you didn’t believe my ramblings in “Common Sense and Technology Selection“, I’ve got a nice anecdotal (and funny) story that backs up my assertion that common sense is lacking in the technology selection process in most organizations. Jump over to The Daily WTF and read this story….I’ll wait for you. Go. Did you read [...]
Interesting analysis today over on Jeffrey Phillips’ Thinking Faster Blog in an article titled “Productivity Barriers“. Note: if you have an interest in productivity in this digital age, check out Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload (Affiliate Link)…great book. In the article, Phillips discusses a recent newsletter from IFS (an [...]
Mike Schaffner posted an interesting article titled “Hiring the Right / Wrong IT People to Achieve Alignment” in which he pointed at a recent article by Dr. George E. Strouse titled “Are You Hiring the Wrong IT Staff to Achieve Your Alignment Goals?” that appeared on CIO.com. Check both articles out. An excerpt from Dr. [...]
Employee engagement has been seen as a ‘buzzword’ for some time but also been touted as something that every organization should focus on. It appears that there is some progress toward engaging employees (see the “Further Reading” below) but of course, many organization’s just don’t “get it”. Instead of talking about how to engage employees [...]
Just an fyi to those that visit my site occasionally….I’ve just made a change on the ‘look and feel’ of the site. Hope you like it. Changes: Moved to a cleaner layout and am now using the Thesis Theme Changes color schemes slightly…Orange and Black now (to reflect my love for all things Oklahoma State!) [...]
Interesting story in the Wall Street Journal’s Business Technology Section titled “Keeping it Simple Pays for a Champion Coder“. The article points to the winner of a recent TopCoder Competition and points to his strategy for winning: Roberts tells the Business Technology Blog that he spent the first hour reading through the project’s requirements and [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve railed against bad customer service….namely because I’ve not been too upset with the various services that I’ve received. But…that streak has been broken. A new definition for poor customer service has been set by a company called “Blu Domain“, specifically by “Aundrea”. My wife and I purchased a website [...]
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