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Category Archives: Project Management

Why do we track our projects?

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Many people confuse “project management” with “schedule maintenance,” and treat project managers as if they were just bean counters. I suspect that one reason for this is the emphasis that many project managers on tracking projects. The project manager needs to control the project, but a big part of that is keeping track of every [...]

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Tone at the top

Saturday, February 4, 2006

I’ve been doing a lot of work with Sarbanes Oxley governance compliance lately. It’s interesting how many similarities there are between what it takes to put good accounting and financial processes in place, and what it takes to do the same for software engineering. I’ve found that many of the core [...]

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Are you micromanaged?

Monday, January 16, 2006

Jenny and I are working on an article about how open source projects have such great practices. We’ve been talking a lot about what corporate IT can learn from open source, and what kind of chronic problems routinely and repeatedly happen on corporate projects. Our idea is that open source projects adopt practices which corporate [...]

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