Rome seminar: Managing Agile Projects

I spent most of last week in Rome, presenting a three-day seminar on “Managing Agile Projects” for Technology Transfer Institute. If you were stuck in some other part of the world, or if you couldn’t persuade your boss to send you to Rome, you can click here to view and download the 47.9MB) PDF version of the [...]

Extreme Project Management, Nov 2010

I spent most of last week in Rome, presenting a three-day seminar on “Extreme Project Management” for Technology Transfer Institute. If you were stuck in some other part of the world, or if you couldn’t persuade your boss to send you to Rome, you can click here to view and download the 25MB) PDF version of the [...]

The IT Project Confessional, part 4 – ethical responsibilities of the confessor priest

Imagine that I’m the “confessor priest” in an IT project confessional environment, and a troubled project manager walks into my office, and tells me that in a fit of rage, he has just shot an obnoxious, uncooperative, unproductive members of his project team — point blank, right between the eyes. What should I do? Or [...]

The IT Project Confessional, part 2 – History and the basics

Yesterday, I introduced the concept of a “project confessional,” where troubled IT project managers could confess their “sins” and ask for help. Before we delve into the more subtle issues associated with such a confessional, I want to cover the basics … and before I do that, I want to acknowledge that this is not [...]

The IT Project Confessional, part 1

Imagine that you’re an IT project manager, and that you’ve just discovered you’ve made a terrible decision. It wasn’t deliberate, and perhaps it wasn’t even conscious; maybe it was a momentary outburst at an uncooperative programmer, caused by all the pressure and exhaustion from overtime. But now your uncooperative programmer has quit in a huff, [...]

Whither IT, part 10 – what if technology improvements only came from software?

The last several postings in this thread about the future of technology have focused on the consequences of hardware advances — e.g., all of the marvelous things we can look forward to in the next 5-10 years as a result of computers/chips that are 10-100 times cheaper, faster, smaller, etc. But as an intellectual exercise, [...]

“Death March” seminar in Rome

I’m here in Rome this week, presenting a two-day seminar on  “Managing Death-March Projects” for Technology Transfer Institute. You should be there so you can hear whatever clever jokes may occur to me while I’m presenting my material, as well as the comments and questions from the other participants. But if you’re stuck in some other [...]

The Politics of Metrics

I’m giving a presentation on “The Politics of Metrics” at the Software Best Practices Conference sponsored by the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute in Ft. Lauderdale, FL on Nov 17, 2009. You should be there so you can meet and hear some of the other great speakers at the conference, as well as whatever clever jokes may occur to [...]

Enterprise 2.0, version 1.02

I’ve updated the seminar on “Enterprise 2.0” that I presented in Rome on May 4-5, 2009. You can download the 54.921-megabyte PDF file by clicking on the link above, or you can view/download it on my Slideshare page; a few of the slides (and updates) will seem rather cryptic and mysterious, but if you actually [...]

Enterprise 2.0 seminar in Rome

I’m presenting a seminar on “Enterprise 2.0” in Rome on May 4-5, 2009. You can download the 35.1-megabyte PDF file by clicking on the link above, or you can view/download it on my Slideshare page; a few of the slides will seem rather cryptic and mysterious, but if you’re actually attending the seminar, then hopefully my [...]