Silicon Valley Project Management - Project management wisdom from practitioners and the UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley

What’s Your Greatest Project Challenge?

By Mike Taylor / February 4, 2007

Many of my project management students have indicated that most of their project crises can be traced back to the

By Jose Solera / February 1, 2007

Earlier this week I described my experience with Agile in pre-history (pre-Internet days). As I’m engaging again in SW development,

By Jose Solera / January 29, 2007

Back in history, pre-Internet days, I was in charge of developing a new IT system to support Marketing. While this

By Paul Konasewich / January 27, 2007

This week we’ve covered two powerful tools to determine when trust is appropriate. 1. Invest time in getting to

By Paul Konasewich / January 25, 2007

Many years ago I was the manager for a large website when one day, the phone rang. On the line

By Paul Konasewich / January 23, 2007

I once worked for a semiconductor company, in a business development role. I was new to the industry and so

By Paul Konasewich / January 22, 2007

So this guy goes to an all day workshop on trust. And in the supportive environment of the workshop, he

This week I’m working with an R&D team in a company that makes bathroom fixtures. As I walked into their

Have you ever noticed that the topics raised at project post mortems tend to be pretty much the same every

By John Dillard / January 10, 2007

Can we design organizations the way we design products? Can we change their designs to make them more efficient/effective? These

By Randall Englund / January 4, 2007

I believe we need to rethink our views about failure. Truly, the only failure is if we fail to learn