“With Otetsudai Networks, if you are willing to work, you sign up for the service with your skills and focus, take a GPS reading on your phone and then just hang out. If you are looking for someone for say… 3 hours to man a cash register or help wash dishes, you just send the request to Otetsudai Networks and within minutes, you have a list of people available.”
5 Reasons Distributed Teams Suck
“Realistically, people work better together remotely once they have met face to face. Distributed teams have a smaller carbon footprint, but knowing when to make footprints to get in once place is key.”
Scrappy Project Management Promo Video
Funny! Funny video. Kimberly Wiefling is promoting her new project management book. Don’t know the book, but you just gotta love the lady!
10 Lessons in Guerilla Tactics of Project Management
“While many brilliant books and articles have been written on good project management, there is little attention paid to all the possibilities a project manager has to create the appearance of managing a project well without the burden of actually doing it.”
Six Ways To Avoid Work On Software Projects
My six golden rules to beat every planning: 1)Fuzziness is your friend, 2)Increase dependencies for input, 3) Elastic scope, 4) Adding more tasks, 5) Write large closing reports, and 6) Pure bluff: Who checks anyway?
The Meaning of Rigor in Project Management
Rigor is a popular topic among IT project managers, often used in the context of describing how a PM should adhere to a particular process. Its been on my mind quite a bit lately, and Ive made some conclusions about what rigorĀ
