#projectmanagement (59 links)
- Let's stop confusing execution with delivery linkedin.com
Delivery is about output. Tickets closed, features shipped, velocity charts trending up. It's visible, measurable, manageable. Execution is about system design: how your organization actually turns intent into outcomes. It's the invisible architecture that determines whether you're learning or just busy.
Helpful framing when working with feature factory places.
- Story Mapping productplan.com
- Entropy Crushers randsinrepose.com
Project manager, product manager, and program manager. Let’s clear that up. A project manager is responsible for shipping a product, whereas a product manager is responsible for making sure the right product is shipped. A program manager is an uber-mutated combination of both that usually shows up to handle multiple interrelated projects like, say, an operating system. Different companies use the names differently, but for this article, project = ship the product, product = ship the right product, and program = ship many interrelated products, usually at the same time. Got it?
- Crossrail: A Hole New World - London Reconnections londonreconnections.com
It is the principle that bad news tends to accrue at a lower management level, because no one wants to be the person who moves a project risk marker from ‘yellow’ to ‘red’ on a RAG chart. As a result, pessimism and a belief that the project will overrun ‘bubbles up’ to a certain decision-making level but never beyond, as if hitting the thermal layer that exists in the ocean. Eventually, the issues reach critical mass and force their way through, leaving senior management wonder why everything ‘suddenly’ went wrong, when in fact the signs that the project was troubled existed at a lower level for some time.
- FlaccidScrum martinfowler.com
<blockquote>Scrum seems to be particularly common as the nominative process the team is following. For many people, this situation is exacerbated by Scrum because Scrum is process that's centered on project management techniques and deliberately omits any technical practices, in contrast to (for example) Extreme Programming.</blockquote>
- Asana asana.com
Rands says use things instead of Things. But I like Things.
- Win-win consulting medium.com
<blockquote>Ideas on how to survive unpleasant projects as a consultant</blockquote>
- Concur about big changes on Friday... news.ycombinator.com
In our daily release meetings, we always used to ask people who wanted to release things on Friday — “will you be at your keyboard all weekend in case something goes wrong?” Answering no to that meant no Friday release.
- Why Software Projects are Terrible and How Not To Fix Them | Sealed Abstract sealedabstract.com
"I can find troubled projects, swoop in and save them through sheer competence, and save the day. This is probably the biggest single lie a developer can tell himself." Honk.
- Agile Software Is A Cop-Out; Here’s What’s Next | Forrester Blogs blogs.forrester.com
Yes.
- ChiliProject - Homepage - Chili Project chiliproject.org
Redmine fork.
- Gobbler getgobbler.com
Backup, collaboration, and project organization designed for pro audio professionals.
- Hacker News | All of the "heavy" agiles like Scrum have confused me: isn't agile about fundame... news.ycombinator.com
"All of the 'heavy' agiles like Scrum have confused me: isn't agile about fundamentally less process and more flexibility? One can't serve two masters. Teams have to pick a point along the completely structured - completely flexible line. As far as I'm concerned, these flavors of agile are just wolves in sheep's clothing that allow existing waterfall autocrats to continue their reign under the guise of adopting 'agile.'" Amen to that. Use the parts that make sense, jettison the parts with large overheads and ideology. Be pragmatic.
- Pivotal Tracker - Free Lightweight Agile Project Management & Team Collaboration, from Pivotal Labs pivotaltracker.com
Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration around a shared, prioritized backlog.
This looks like it could be most handy. "If you’re building a multi-language website or app, you probably use language files. When you change content in one language file, you need to remember to update the other language files. Even with source control, this can get messy pretty quickly if you have many languages, many translators or a large site. We encountered these problems ourselves and needed a tool to keep things organized - so we built String."
- Alex Payne — Don't Be A Hero al3x.net
Heroes are damaging to a team because they become a crutch. As soon as you have someone who’s always willing to work at all hours, the motivation from the rest of the team to produce reliable, trouble-free software drops. The hero is a human patch.
- Trac Workflow blocking - Stack Overflow stackoverflow.com
Is there a way to block a given change based on the user role? For example, I don't want any developer to be able to change a ticket status from 'development' to 'closed'. I want it to go through 'test', and allow 'test' to 'closed' only to users with the test role.
- ongoing · Doing It Wrong tbray.org
What I’m writing here is the single most important take-away from my Sun years, and it fits in a sentence: The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don’t know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups.
- Technical Debt - 10x Software Development blogs.construx.com
The reason most often cited by technical staff for avoiding debt altogether is the challenge of communicating the existence of technical debt to business staff and the challenge of helping business staff remember the implications of the technical debt that has previously been incurred. Everyone agrees that it's a good idea to incur debt late in a release cycle, but business staff can sometimes resist accounting for the time needed to pay off the debt on the next release cycle. The main issue seems to be that, unlike financial debt, technical debt is much less visible, and so people have an easier time ignoring it.
- Meeting Ticker tobytripp.github.com
Beautiful. Need an iPhone version.
- Are you doing agile or are you doing waterfall with some agile practices? at Making good software makinggoodsoftware.com
You can be doing agile without performing any of the current recommended practices and you can perform all the recommended practices and still not be agile. Lots of teams believe they are practicing agile just because they are doing standups or TDD… That’s like pretending to be a musician because you have the best instrument.
For those who have no control over which clients and projects come to them, there is still hope, because everyone on the web (not just professional designers and developers) has the ability to produce meaningful content, and every designer and developer additionally has the power to create products and services. As your own client, working alone, or with a carefully hand-picked team, you can produce great things
Adaptive Path using Basecamp, Skype and ConceptShare. Been impressed by the latter, in particular (although there are plenty of other services doing the same thing).
- Onehub onehub.com
FTP Replacement, Large File Transfer, Custom Extranets
- scottberkun.com » Looking for project management slang scottberkun.com
- scottberkun.com » PM Clinic: A forum on project management scottberkun.com
A friendly discussion forum on the art and science of managing teams and leading projects.
- this is sippey.typepad.com: project management lingo sippey.typepad.com
“Is there Project Management Lingo?” Yes. Yes there is. My favourite in the comments: "What Would McGyver Do?"
- freckle: time tracking rethought letsfreckle.com
Possible replacement for Harvest (which works reasonably well but is a little clunky). Harvest costs half as much per month for individuals, though.
- BandCentral -The Online Band Management Tool bandcentralhq.com
Basecamp for bands. Nice idea, but pricing looks a bit skewiff.
- Mr. Yuk Says Project Roadmaps Are Poisonous codesqueeze.com
For some time now, I have thought that high-level project roadmaps (Gantt charts in particular) are one of the most worthless documents that a software project team can produce.
Basecamp alternative. "Combines group collaboration, project management and document sharing using social networking principles."
- RescueTime: Web-based Time Management Software rescuetime.com
Automatically watches what you're doing and logs it. Not sure how you'd tie it to a specific job without intervention, though.
- ReviewBasics -- Home reviewbasics.com
Comment, annotate, and markup images, documents, and videos.
- Web Producer versus Web Project manager | Forum | E-consultancy.com e-consultancy.com
Reasonably accurate job descriptions for both roles (be interested in whether Producers/PMs agree)
- An Entirely Other Day - Wide vs. Deep blog.eod.com
Some people are naturally wide, some people are naturally deep. But the assumption is, in most business contexts, that you can — and should want to — jump between the two as the need or situation dictates. But this is a load of crap.
- Evidence Based Scheduling - Joel on Software joelonsoftware.com
Over the last year or so at Fog Creek we’ve been developing a system that’s so easy even our grouchiest developers are willing to go along with it. And as far as we can tell, it produces extremely reliable schedules.
- Beanstalk — Hosted Subversion for team leads beanstalkapp.com
A hosted Subversion system, making it easy for anyone to setup, browse, track, and manage Subversion repositories [...] has built-in integration with your favorite tools such as Basecamp, FogBugz, and Lighthouse.
- High Performance Web Sites books.slashdot.org
"Teams are so fluid, project work is chaotic and project management is driven by marketing considerations (read: "get it out", not "enterprise stability") that site performance is seen as a server hardware issue."
- Web Worker 101: Estimating Basics « Web Worker Daily webworkerdaily.com
Whatever your skills as software developer or web designer (or whatever your web work career entails), you need to also understand the basics of estimating.
- MyQuire.com - The place for projects myquire.com
An online tool that lets members work on projects with a team or on their own
- 101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed codesqueeze.com
50. Your manager spends his lunch hour crying in his car (another true story)
- James Shore: Successful Software jamesshore.com
You can Change Your Organization or Change Your Organization.
What project management (PM) is and what it isn't, [...] basics of the project lifecycle, [...] tools that you can use to make your projects run smoother, faster, and easier
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