management
 |
Making Telecommuting Work for Your Product Development Team Can you make telecommuting work for your organization? Of course you can. The question is this: Will it make your product development proceed faster, with more ease and less cost, and allow you the most flexibility? If not, you may want to reconsider having employees telecommute. |
|
 |
Book Review: To Sell Is Human Steve Berczuk reviews Daniel Pink’s recent book To Sell Is Human and explains how it's a resource that can benefit agile practitioners. The main message in the book is how everyone, not just those engaged in commerce, are selling all the time. |
|
 |
Warning Signs of a Project Headed for Trouble When running a project, there will be many chances for things to go wrong. Usually, there are warning signs a project is going off the rails. You should be on the lookout for any of the signs listed in this story so you can take steps sooner rather than later to reorient your project toward success. |
|
 |
Rethinking Typical Project Management Approaches "Don't work on projects, work on products!" is a cry often heard in the agile community. But if you have a team pulled together to support an ongoing product, it doesn't make sense to use typical project management techniques. Maybe projects aren't the problem—their organizational structures are. |
|
 |
How and When to Give Feedback Without feedback, it's hard for anyone to know where he stands, what he's doing well, and what he could be doing better. But a lot more goes into giving feedback than simply telling someone how you feel. Learn how to get your message across without mixed signals. |
|
 |
Should the CIO Know How to Code? The issue isn’t whether CIOs should actually do the coding but whether they should know enough to understand IT complexities and to represent IT to customers. With more senior IT leaders coming from other departments, it isn’t a trivial question. This story looks at both sides of the matter. |
|
 |
Managing the Stream of Features in an Agile Program If you keep a stream of features moving in a program—even with many feature teams—you are OK as long as the project teams keep talking to one another. You are not OK, however, if someone decides, “I own this code and no one else can touch it.” Johanna Rothman says how agile programs should operate. |
|
 |
What to Do about a Workplace Culture of Blame A blaming culture is one in which people are reluctant to speak out, take risks, or accept responsibility at work because they fear criticism, retribution, or worse. It’s no easy matter to reverse a blaming culture, but if you’re in one, read on for some ideas about changes that could make it better. |
