In episode 17 Dave and Bas discuss the Wired article “The Phone Call Is Dead” by Clive Thompson and Dave’s upcoming presentation at Agile 2010 in Orlando called “Why you suck at off shoring, even with Agile“. He will be presenting together with Thushara Wijewardena. Click here if you want to subscribe to this podcast …
People cluster together. We form groups for economic and social reasons. What if we could use our natural tendency for social clustering as a way to drive teams? What if we could create conditions that would attract “the right people”? What if those “right people” would “trust” all other member in the group, just because …
Every moment in a project has a specific set of topics and discussions you would expect. During the start up “planning” and “scope”, just before delivery “creating the final build” and “acceptance”. If you are in a room with your team it happens very often that a talk between people in the same room morphs …
In episode 33 of The Project Shrink Chalyce Nollsh (PM Bistro) is talking about the flip side of social media; some words of caution when using new media as a Project Manager. In this presentation, recorded at the PMI Global Congress in Orlando, she discusses the following topics: New Media Never Sleeps Without Business Value, …
If you want to have a self-managed team (and you really want that), you need to agree on the means of the project, the rules of engagement. One set of rules for everyone. Everyone should know the same set of rules… Humans … have “rules” about how we do things “around here”. It is not …