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Category Archives: Project Management

Useful ideas for really large projects.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

How do you manage a large project? There’s a big difference between managing a project team with, say, ten people and a team with a hundred. That shouldn’t be too surprising. But if you’re managing your first large project, it can be really daunting. Luckily, there’s been a lot of good work done on [...]

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What about Agile?

Friday, April 27, 2007

One of the best things about writing a Head First book is that you get feedback from other Head First authors. Our editor, Brett (who you may know from Head First OOA&D), got some interesting feedback from Bert Bates. Bert was going through Head First PMP, and pointed out — and rightly so — that [...]

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Don’t let uncontrolled changes derail your project

Monday, June 26, 2006

Changes are dangerous. It’s often very easy to loosely describe a change in just a few sentences which, if implemented, would require an enormous effort (and a lot more detailed description). The sales people and product managers still need to figure out what the client needs, but in order to make an informed decision about [...]

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“Not Invented Here” Syndrome

Sunday, June 11, 2006

“Not Invented Here” syndrome (NIH syndrome) is a name given to a common type of organizational culture where people intentionally avoid research or innovations that were not developed within the organization. When faced with a problem, the people in the organization will typically reject a solution that is known to have worked elsewhere in the [...]

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Project management for teams of all sizes

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

There’s sometimes a feeling among software engineers that good project management is only “appropriate” for large projects. I disagree. I don’t think there’s such a thing as a team that’s too small for good project management. I’ve taken on projects with small teams — even as small as two people — and I’ve kept them [...]

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