by Ali Anani and Bas de Baar Turn on your television and try not to look at CSI Miami, NYC or Tonopah. It is amazing how popular crime series are, crime series where the technicians will save the day. It must be a universal thing, as the series are as popular in Europe as in …
Why Reality Will Not Stick To Your Plan by Ali Anani and Bas de Baar Project life can be quite frustrating when one day after another turns out not how you planned it. The software should be ready when you said it would. It has to. Otherwise you have people waiting, customers complaining and bosses …
What Do We Know “The capacity of humans to deceive each other is well documented by history and personal experience. Less well known, however, is the capacity of most living things to deceive each other – species deceiving other species, members of their own species and themselves. We are, it seems, not that different from …
I recently had a chance to read a paper by Allan L. Scherr of IBM on managing highly effective software projects. In brief, the premise of the paper is that creative breakthroughs can be induced by setting a highly aggressive schedule and doing whatever is necessary to meet deadline. Basically the method calls for inviting …
Six months ago I was ranting over the concept of Social Project Management, a term coined Leisa Reichelt. Although I still stand by the content of my posting, I must correct one thing. I finally found the original presentation and wow, she is absolutely right and on the money! I do apologize… Look for yourself. …