I Hate Books

I hate that indexes suck and that they don’t support full text searching across my entire collection. I hate that I have to guess which ones I’ll...

PM Skill #6: Be The Team Mom

In an ideal world, a PM would be able to get together with their team, lead the discussion ’til everyone agrees what they’re going to do and while...

My Son’s First Computer Program

Wonderful things happen when I tell me kids to stop playing video games and to stop watching TV (I try to limit them to an hour of each/day). I...

A Toast to WPF

Here’s a review you don’t get very often: “Your WPF book is excellent. So good that I actually chose to read it instead of watching in flight...

PM Skill #5: Unblock Others First

PMs often come from the ranks of engineers who’ve been “promoted” (aka taken away from the code to go to meetings). Many fight this trend, reverting...

PM Skill #4: Exhibiting the Behavior You Want

At our last team milestone, we had stepped up the pace in the last two weeks to make sure that we were done in time for a demo by one of our...

Survey: The Future of Publishing

Karen Gettman, my editor at Addison-Wesley, called and asked me a bunch of questions about the future of publishing yesterday. After our discussion,...

.NET 2.0 Breaks NTD

a problem with .NET 2.0 and No-Touch Deployment applications over the internet““...