Why We Need to Regularly Challenge Our Assumptions
I always thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer. A college alum interview made me confront my assumptions and it changed my direction in life.
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Managing By Using The Tip Of The Iceberg
Oh boy, I think. Here we go again. We had a problem. When we completed and delivered our last project, our status showed we had zero outstanding defects.
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When Product Success Is Bad For Project Management
Success can be a very bad thing and only perpetuate bad practices, until they finally eat out the soul of the company.
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Did The Tech Giants Botch Obamacare?
Still, he says, the contractors are huge companies familiar with complexity, and in most cases they’ve had years to address the sites’ problems.
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Experts Can Save The Day, But Not For The Reasons We Expect
Outside of the traditional government pipelines, talented individuals are waiting and willing to help [to save Obamacare].
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How To Fix Why Our Good Ideas Don’t Get Adopted
We are idea rich, selection baffled, and adoption poor.
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Argue With Each Other If We Want To Be Successful
Amazon’s culture is notoriously confrontational, and it begins with Bezos, who believes that truth shakes out when ideas are banged against each other.
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What I Learned By Hacking At The National Security Agency
My supervisors knew what I was up to. But I was a young Airman whose job, at least for the first six months, was to tear messages off of classified printers.
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How To Respond Before It Is Too Late
There it was up on the screen. The list of competitors for our products One, over in the corner of the slide, was called the iPhone.
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Project Management Lessons From Obamacare
Sometimes, we just have to change the system to see how things will really work.
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What We Use To Motivate Our Team Matters
When I began to focus on numbers of customers and associated income, it pretty much sucked the soul out of the whole effort.
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You Have To Be Looking For It
Thousands of engineers in the future would not see it. The funny thing about it is, once the hole is explained to you, it’s obvious.
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Certification Is Useful But Not For The Reasons We Think
I remember a candidate once presented me page after page of certifications, each in its acetate protector, neatly organized in a faux-leather binder.
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Project Management Lessons From The US Congress
There is a lot of fear among people who have been here for a long time that those from the new generation are a threat to the way things have worked.
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The Role Of Luck And Skill In Our Success
If you’ve done that and you get a bad outcome in the short term, pick yourself up and go back at it the next day because over time it will lead to success.
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