I am meant to be writing about office politics but have been distracted by our major release (http://www.iconnect360.com/standard/). That is over so I can get back to blogging. But rather than writing an article I thought I would steal some ideas from well known product design guru “KC” Kok Chiann. Regular readers of this blog […]
I have been struggling with how to improve our development team output lately. We have managed to get 20% to 40% faster with better quality over the last couple of quarters so I am pretty happy with that. We have flip-flopper (er experimented) with better requirements and modeling before a sprint or lighter up-front requirements […]
Some people believe that if you are evil then you have no values and that you will be good at office politics, but that if you are good then you will have strong values and be really bad at office politics. I believe that regardless of whether you are good or evil, you will be […]
Apparently office politics is a horrible thing that other people do. But many of the emerging IT leaders I speak to get told they need to be better at “soft skills” and “influencing at a senior level”. What this often means is get good a politics. Sadly a lot of office politics seems to involve […]
I am starting a bunch of small projects at the moment and people are rushing to help define the solutions. That is great but I am (as always) nervous that we are providing solutions before we really understand what we want to solve. I like to define the problem (or vision) and then a rough […]
Like every other cool project manager these days I like to be agile. But I used to be a pretty good waterfall project manager before I found out how uncool it was. One of the common things I used to do was called “crashing the project schedule”. In fact it is probably the most fun […]
I often seem to face the same problem – how can I reduce my resources, increase my scope, improve quality and go faster? The best answer is – be clear on what you really want and decrease your scope. Sadly that is the opposite of what people want to hear, but usually delivering the right […]
