Phil Wolff: project managementGetting things done.AO: software development goes abroad for good.- June 20, 2003 An Always On discussion thread. Hold on to your IDEs, American programers: the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming. And the Chinese. And the Indians. And the Irish. I wrote: If you can move work to the next building because of IM, email, file sharing, SCM, etc., you can move it a thousand miles. The questions should be: What work is very hard to move What advantages can we create that will be hard to follow What limitations of remote work can we exploit My gut reaction is to..http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=570_0_4_0_C Can you apply Theory Of Constraints to Human Capital- June 17, 2003 Frank Patrick (one of the deepest thinkers on project management in our time) catches the new chapter on Critical Chain Scheduling in Ed Yourdan's new second edition of Death March. The book is mandatory reading for every project worker. I like one of Yourdan's anecdotes: My colleague Tom DeMarco likes to tell the story of consulting clients he visits, who ask him, "If we could do just one thing to improve our project-management situation, what would it be" Tom's answer is often...http://yourdon.com/books/DeathMarch/CH07A.html Exporting software development is good for American software engineers.- June 12, 2003 Roland Tanglao takes exception to an AO post. The post... How efficient is it to pay a software engineer in the Valley a loaded salary of $170,000, the average salary reported in the fourth quarter of 2001, when Asian engineers provide a much better value We've all read the cost differentials between US and Indian, Vietnamese and Chinese workers. And one of the main reasons this work went overseas is because clients knew they were being gouged by US engineers and consultants. After all,...http://www.rolandtanglao.com/2003/06/12.html#a4570 WBS: Jupiter By Wire- June 9, 2003 There's a channel of pushed posts from the Jupiter Weblog Business Strategies conference. Just hit refresh.http://topicexchange.com/t/weblog_business_strategies_conference/ The schedule...- June 5, 2003 ... is not the project. From Frank Patrick's Focused Performance Business Blog.http://www.focusedperformance.com/2003_05_01_blarch.html#200365477 |