For Budding Business Tots−Books for Project People Part 4 of 6
At 14, Ben Casnocha founded a software company called Comcate Inc. At 17, Inc. magazine named him “entrepreneur of the year.” As a business professional with more years experience than Ben has been alive on the planet, it is intuitively easy to resent this guy sight unseen, but luckily I have had the pleasure of [...]
People Who Need People: Books For Project People Part 3 of 6
Almost every job I know requires some people skills. But unlike sales and marketing for instance, being a project manager generally requires someone who may not naturally tend towards the “social theme” of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory, but someone who prefers working more with “things” and data.
Technorati Tags: Dysfunctional, Teams, teamwork
Make Mine Spumoni: Books For Project People Part 2 of 6
One of the on-going risks for technical people these days is to be seen as a commodity-and treated as such. How many times have you heard the need for talented technical people reduced to a description of rather “vanilla” technical skills-like, “we need a great JAVA guy”? Now, granted, you cannot fill a [...]
I’m with the Band−Books for Project People Part 1 of 6
I am NOT a Project Manager. As a technology business strategist working primarily with emerging technology products, I spend most of my time trying to understand why a customer would want to buy what you building and ultimately hoping to sell. So, pathetically enough, I guess I am more like a PM groupie! I hang [...]
Outsourcing software development:a bad idea? (continued)
Unintended consequences?
I certainly would agree with anyone who tells me there are appropriate circumstances and projects for outsourcing, whether on or off shore. As Jacky implied in her comment to my first post, when requirements are firm: such as localization or porting of a product that already runs in one language or on one platform: [...]
