Below are the most popular posts on Project Shrink: The Blog (last 30 days - UPDATED 15th April 2008):

1. Introducing The Fish Pond
2. Management And Meditation
3. Proud Postings: Eric D Brown
4. Swimming Upstream The Information Flow
5. Fish And OODA Loops
6. What Is The Best Way To Motivate Team Members?
7. Project Management Code: Why Do You Do What You Do?
8. Stratification: Organizational Structures In A Pond
9. Proud Postings: Raven's Brain
10. Proud Postings: Undocumented Features
11. Social OODA Super Speedway
12. Driving On The OODA Highway
13. Filter And Drainage - Trust Running Through The Team
14. Bottoms Up: Leadership Style For A Better World
15. Way-New Collaboration: What I Meant To Say

A couple of months ago I got an email from Sean Stewart pitching me Zephyr "a revolutionary test management system with top features". Well, "revolutionary" is always good for getting my attention… So, I had a small email interview with him about testing processes and his companies test suite.

If you could decide, how would you organize the test process within an agile software project (iterative, on site)?
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By Ali Anani and Bas de Baar

After reading about OODA loops and Social OODA some of you (yes you!) might have had one big question: What the heck has this to do with fish? In this post we will go back to the Fish Pond and explain the connection. Well, we'll try.

Fish do not simply float around in a tank. Although they once in a while bump into glass walls, they are able to find food, detect other fish and perform other cases of interacting with their environment. Fish in general can sense changes in the environment either by vision, by smell, sound and by the sensitivity of the skin (changes in water pressure, acidity and temperature). Yes, if fish want to communicate, they blow bubbles.

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Multicultural Project Management

"An effective project manager will work with culturally diverse team members to overcome all cultural, perceptual and language barriers. In todays global economy, multicultural project management is key to the success of many multinational corporations. This is particularly true for manufacturers that assemble components and parts from many countries around the world."
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By Ali Anani and Bas de Baar

In our previous article we painted the image of people walking on the OODA highway, continuously performing OODA loops, interacting with the environment, in the search for information packages that help them adapt to changes. In this posting we want to extend this notion to the use of social OODA loops.

Image by kk+

Humans are social. A group of people interacting with each other has to be viewed in a social context. (Human) needs are all expressed in comparison of other members of the globe. That is why they are considered social. In this context we also consider the concept of group affiliation. Group affiliation is what it is all about in our lives. During your life you are a member of a lot of social groups, by default, by choice or by force (…) The group memberships determine how we see ourselves in the whole of society, it determines our identity. (source)
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