rodcorp: rodcorp: Projects and teamsProject management, team managementRoss Mayfield: interruption 'taxes' in IM, email, phonecalls- August 13, 2003 includes good stats for Peopleware fans. As you'd expect, generally an inverse relationship between how personal and 'intense' the type of interruption is (phonecall, email etc) and time-to-recover-from-interruption, except that IM (which has more presence than email) may extract a lower interruption tax. Another reason to use it in the officehttp://radio.weblogs.com/0114726/2002/12/31.html#a171 Businesses: managing real-time communications critical- August 13, 2003 Businesses: managing real-time communications is as important as managing real-time processes. Put another way: PR is increasingly an internal exercise because external PR just happens, leaks out of the company via your employees. So, Ross says, trust your employees, teach them and empower them. Trust being the key verb here. (cf Cluetrain of course, and SemlerSemco.)http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2003/08/information_bat.html Designers: selling down not up- August 13, 2003 Politics considered helpful in the selling-your-design game. The title itself -- Make It Bigger-- refers to Paula's endless battle to help clients be able to see the design clearly, and accept it without the layers of hierarchy pissing on it (my words, not hers). By end running the hierarchy and then selling down rather than up, she is able to avoid watered-down design arriving for final approval.http://www.eleganthack.com/archives/003407.html#003407 Agile development = being ready to ship at any time- August 8, 2003 Darren Hobbs sez that agile means being ready to ship (literally, shrinkwrap and shelve up) whatever work you've done at any point throughout the project. Guards against the risk of the project being cancelled, though arguably if something is ready to go at all times and that thing meets some of the project goals, the project probably won't get whacked. Also: possible risk of not making sufficient progress in fear of breaking the product Looking at "agile" as it relates to the team rather...http://www.darrenhobbs.com/archives/000465.html AIGA: Understanding The Future Of Mobile Devices- August 7, 2003 Notes taken at this event, ably led by Nico MacDonald.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105728/stories/2003/08/07/understandingTheFutureOfMobileDevices.... |