List/Grid Tag Archives: Project Management
To estimate or not to estimate, that is the question
Disparaging those who provide software estimates seems to be a growing sport. At conferences, in blogs and the twitter-verse it seems open season for anyone who dares to suggest a software ...
Agile Product Planning: Vision, Strategy, and Tactics
Product planning is just as important in an agile context as it is in a traditional setting. Unfortunately, some product owners focus so much on the product details and the tactical ...
Telecommuting, Hoteling, and Managing Product Development
There are two sides of this conversation about telecommuting: the employee side and the management side. I hope you stick around for both sides. You can yell at me at the end. Employees: ...
The Three Layers of Management
We’ve always made project management an important and inseparable part of our development and design services. When Atomic Object was younger, we would tend to focus on the technical ...
5 Techniques to Get the Most Out of Your Software Team
Congrats! You have identified a high-performing, top-notch software development team to design and build your product. (If you are still looking for a team read this.) Want to know ...
Fragmented projects and overcommitted people
In 2010 I wrote two articles on Burn-Out and exhaustion in software teams. Since then there were more and more articles of this kind printed in the major german press. Psychologists ...
Bumping Into Manager Rules
You might have met a manager on a bad manager day. Equally as frustrating is when you work for a manager who has rules about problem solving. I once worked for a manager who proudly ...
Nurturing Leadership
I had an email conversation with a colleague about when you let people fail versus when you rescue them—how you nurture leadership. The context is with people who are new to management, ...
Tear Down the Walls! – Shattering Team Boundaries
One of the biggest complications in large software development projects is overcoming the boundaries between teams. When (and if) things are rolling smoothly on a project, these lines ...
How to Improve Your Distributed Team with In-Person Meetings
Mike English and I do a great deal of work for the SME Toolkit, a project that provides resources for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME’s) in developing countries. It’s sponsored ...
