CIO Top 100 Companies For 2008
August 26, 2008
The CIO magazine announced the top 100 companies for 2008 that are creating new business value by innovating with technology. The chart in the magazine’s... Read more...
Loyalty
July 25, 2008
A great quote on loyalty by Stephen Covey. I found it in the Slacker Manager blog and I want to share it with you: You can buy a person’s hands, but you can’t buy... Read more...
What is the project goal?
June 11, 2008
The PMI definition of a project says that it is “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service” but it doesn’t say why we need to create that product or service. This definition is so often quoted and it makes... Read more...
How would you reward your employees - cash or gift?
May 28, 2008
This is an interesting question I’ve been thinking for a long time on but today I found a post in the Predictably Irrational blog (thanks to Bas de Baar!) and I decided to put my own thoughts on a page. I already wrote about the motivation here... Read more...
How To Motivate Your Team?
April 8, 2008
Bas de Baar asked this question in his blog Project Shrink and asked his readers to suggest their opinions. I have always thought that having motivated people is the key to the project success but I really haven’t got “a recipe” how... Read more...
Don’t “Drill Down” Into Technical Issues
February 5, 2008
I am going to create new series in my blog called Advices to the novice project managers and I think it would be very helpful especially for software developers stepping into the project management field. There are many occasions when a project manager... Read more...
Techniques for Gathering Requirements
January 29, 2008
I found recently an article called 10 techniques for gathering requirements. While Tom Mochal is a very competent expert and I admire his opinion a lot, some of the techniques he describes look too trivial - one-on-one interview, group interview, facilitated... Read more...
Walking on Water
January 25, 2008
I found this great sentence, which belongs to Edward V. Berard and I am eager to share it with you: Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Thanks to Irina Marudina for this piece of wisdom. If you like... Read more...
The Most Important Rules of Delegation
January 24, 2008
I found recently an article by Richard Lannon entitled 12 Rules of Delegation. While the article is fine and it really gives some insights on how to delegate I think it fails to emphasize the most critical issues of delegating responsibility to the others. I... Read more...
Rich Maltzman, Crowdsourcing, and Project Management
January 13, 2008
Rich Maltzman is a certified PMP and a project manager with huge professional experience. I didn’t know him until recently I found the Fiddler on the Project Wiki where he tries (together with Ranjit Biswas, PMP) to write a book based on the principles... Read more...