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I was having a chat over lunch with my coworker about a situation at work that had parallels to his role as the chair of a town committee. My friend (who incidentally is the inspiration for a lot of my comments based on our lunchtime conversations) was trying to get volunteer members of the committee […]
May 20, 2008
Oh the tangled webs we weave, when first we practice to deceive… It is true in management of projects as well. Like manipulating the numbers rather than improving the system, we as managers always have a choice when it comes to the information we know. Choice one, hide bad information from our partners, fool ourselves into believing […]
May 19, 2008
This is a thought provoking entry from Curious Cat Management on the single point of failure. How many days do we allow an individual to hold the company, or some part of it, hostage to his/her exclusive knowledge? How often do you allow the performance of your team to be dictated by the individuals? And what do […]
May 18, 2008
I sat through a very long, very boring meeting the other day on a set of process improvements. In the room were about a dozen practitioners of software development. All of them are experienced developers and in that capacity probably capable people. That does not make them good process people. For one, there are about […]
May 12, 2008
Maybe this is a rule of good process design that I’d never heard of, because it seemed suddenly obvious to me when I thought about it today, but I’m going to write about it anyway. I’m going to propose that a key feature of a good process is one that has no decision points in […]
May 7, 2008
I got into an interesting conversation with one of my friends the other evening over dinner. He had been reading my blog and, not being a process type himself, questioned how I could enjoy it so much. Fair enough… I know this is a niche blog topic. I’m OK with that. More importantly, the conversation […]
May 22, 2008
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