4 month ago
Richard Rutter : Understanding organizational stakeholders - ...for Design Success.
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5 month ago
philgyford : Extenuating Circumstances – SXSW 2008: Creative Collaboration: Building Web Apps Together - Good notes on a SXSW panel. I wonder where I'd fit in, but also wonder why I'm doing all this theatre nonsense when reading stuff like this makes me so excited.
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11 month ago
Richard Rutter : On scope creep - Defining Project Boundaries (and Keeping Your Client Within Them).
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13 month ago
43folders : What's new in the New Backpack - Additions include calendars and lovely enhancements to inter- and intra-page organization. Per-page feeds are smart as well.
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19 month ago
43folders : Enterprise Architecture: Thought Leadership: The biggest myth in Project Management... - "Tasks have only three states: not started, started but not finished and finished. Period." +1 Insightful [via:anarchaia.org]
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19 month ago
43folders : Project manager newbie. Sort of. | Ask MetaFilter - "I'm looking for inspiration from successful web teams and web project managers. Where can I find these?"
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merlinmann : Sink or swim: 10 steps to rescue a foundering project - "You get caught up in 'requirement rush.' You continue to add requirements, and it gets so complicated, it's like a duck-billed platypus."
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25 month ago
plasticbag : OmniPlan is a new project management tool coming soon from the OmniGroup - Any new OmniGroup project is interesting, but this one could be especially so.
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28 month ago
joshua : Project X - OS X project tools
deusx : Project X - I almost thought this was Tinderbox at first, from the screenshots. "Project X will forever change the way you manage projects."
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29 month ago
philgyford : Web-based job tracking, invoicing, reporting & project management software for the part-time independent contractor. - Side Job Track - Haven't tried it, but looks good. Not sure why it's only for "part-time" contractors.
Jeremy Zawodny : Side Job Track - Side Job Track: "Web-based job tracking, invoicing, reporting & project management software for the part-time independent contractor."
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29 month ago
merlinmann : One Hundred Rules for NASA Project Managers - "If you have a problem that requires additional people to solve, you should approach putting people on like a cook who has under-salted the food."
Paul Hammond : One Hundred Rules for NASA Project Managers - Wrong decisions made early can be recovered from. Right decisions made late cannot correct them.
WillPate : One Hundred Rules for NASA Project Managers - Wisdom on getting projects done from an experienced NASA project manager
jimray : One Hundred Rules for NASA Project Managers - Mostly obvious, but good to keep in mind all the same
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29 month ago
merlinmann : Todoque - there is nothing to learn. - Elegant, practical shorthand for sharing bits of action and info within teams.
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30 month ago
WillPate : Overtime and Startups - Because yes, there are big tradeoffs.
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31 month ago
WillPate : Pareto's Principle - The 80-20 Rule - "The 80/20 Rule means that in anything a few (20 percent) are vital and many(80 percent) are trivial."
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33 month ago
Milo Vermeulen : PingMag - The Website Development Process [via]
WillPate : The Website Development Process - PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things" - Done in cool lego for an actual client presentation!
Cameron Moll : The Web Dev Process, Anime Action Figure-style - The web dev process, anime action figure-style.
François Nonnenmacher : The Website Development Process - Cute!
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33 month ago
Rod Begbie : Google: Ten Golden Rules - Some interesting notes on Google's culture. "Nobody throws chairs at Google, unlike management practices used at some other well-known technology companies." Snerk. [via] #
kayodeok : Google: Ten Golden Rules - Knowledge workers believe they are paid to be effective, not to work 9 to 5, and that smart businesses will "strip away everything that gets in their knowledge workers' way."
jkottke : Seven key principles that Google uses to make their employees more effective - Seven key principles that Google uses to make their employees more effective. "At Google, the role of the manager is that of an aggregator of viewpoints, not the dictator of decisions."
Linkorama : Google: Ten Golden Rules - At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have just as much effort and creativity in this domain as in new product development.
WillPate : Google's Ten Golden Rules - How they manage knowledge workers.
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WillPate : Backing Out Is Hard To Do | CEO Blues - Dan's right, choose your clients carefully
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34 month ago
WillPate : Open Loops: Estimating Realistic Project Deadlines
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35 month ago
WillPate : Review: Scott Berkun’s “The Art of Project Management†- Need to pick up a copy. Even though I'm not production, I can hand it around the office.
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plasticbag : Writeboard is a new project from 37 signals - "Writeboard is a web-based hosted service that lets you write, share, revise, and compare. I?m not going to go into details, lest I give away too much too early, but I will say it?s quite useful and we think you?ll like it."
Andy Baio : 37 Signals' Writeboard launches - nicely designed wiki with clean change tracking, but I'm surprised it's not real-time like Jot Live [via]
jimray : Collaborative writing software online with Writeboard. Write, share, revise, compare. - "Wikis are icky" - wtf? Looks cool, though, and it'll be a nice addition to my Basecamp account.
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