It’s time for a reader suggestion thread and today’s question is: What is the best advice you can give to project managers supervising offshore development projects? Please place a comment with your tip on managing offshore development. It might be the importance of communication; it might be the need for bridging cultural differences. Don’t hold …
A while ago I was talking about the importance of preplanning your project: “The idea about preplanning is to equip yourself in such a way that you can adapt to circumstances. That you create an start situation that is as good as you possibly can. If you go to the arctic, you take warm cloths, …
Sorry for the slow pace in postings recently. I traveled to London for a short holiday. LOVED IT! If we have one World City in Europe, it must be London. Anyway, I am back, and have some nice postings lined up for the next weeks, as we are approaching the one year anniversary of Project …
Craig Brown writes a blog at BetterProjects.net. Craig and I are regular readers of each other’s sites and now we are having a conversation from site to site. Hi Craig, Thanks for the great summary. Yes, I think the solution to the problem of changing requirements lies basically in education and training. The sources of …
On this blog I talk a lot about the need for people to be able to see different perspectives on matters. An impressive example of this is shown in the video below (if you read the RSS feed, you need to visit this post to view). In it an American programmer goes 30 days to …