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I recently got asked for book recs for new project managers, and I had some trouble coming up with any. It’s a shame, really– most of the books on management I’ve read really haven’t impressed me. And books on project management often are focused on PMP certification, not real-world wrangling of technical people and projects.
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The number that is floating around my universe right now is 10,000– I hear this is the number of hours it takes to become good at something. I’ve been thinking about that number a lot over the last few weeks.
If you’re doing something as your full-time job, it will take you about 5 years to [...]
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So, last night Ted and I were watching Battlestar Galactica on DVD, and I became infuriated by the character of Lee Adama. “He is a crappy leader!” I shouted. “If he were a project manager, his projects would fail!” From there I segued into a more extended rant about real-life political leaders who are promoted above their level of competency based on their family history, and how badly that tends to work out.
This morning, I’m still thinking of Lee Adama’s complete lack of leadership skills. I’ve known project managers like Lee– heck, I’ve been a project manager like Lee. Before I started figuring out what my role is as a project leader, I escalated the level of drama on the projects I was involved with.
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I was hanging out chatting with a new friend recently, a developer, and he gave me the coolest email trick. When he’s sending email out, he puts the point of the message up top, and then puts in a line saying –Detail: Do Not Read– and then dumps all of the information leading [...]
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