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A couple of weeks ago I published a link to MSDN that had an excerpt from Scott
Berkun’s book The
Art of Project Management. After reading the excerpt, I immediately bought
the book and I have learned a lot from it. The experience Scott brings to the
book is obvious, as he includes plenty of examples of what not to [...]

That quote comes from an essay by Paul Graham on what large companies can learn from
open source and startups. I really enjoyed this essay on the way companies change
as they grow more professional and dignified, particularly the parts dealing with
Workspaces. I’ve always had a problem with the idea of Work Hours for people in a
professional [...]

Excerpt: In this chapter excerpt from his book, The Art of Project Management,
Scott Berkun recounts what it took for him to be successful at Microsoft as a project
manager. (16 printed pages)

This ability to drive is so important to some that it’s used as a litmus test
in hiring project managers. Even if PMs can’t precisely define [...]

Sometimes the best presentation is… no presentation. Ditch the slides completely. Put the projector in the closet, roll the screen back up, and turn the damn lights back on! Especially if the slides are bullet points. Or worse… paragraphs….
This is an excerpt from a great post by Kathy Sierra about power point presentations. If you [...]

This is my first management related post. In future posts I will talk about my current
system for personal and professional time management (Getting
Things Done by David Allen) and some of the tools and processes I use to
manage my team (ticketing software, Microsoft Project, etc.) But in this post I thought I
would deal with time management as it has evolved for [...]