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““...

PM Skill #3: Getting Things Done

Fundamentally, a PM’s job is to get things done. If you’re going to plan and ship while keeping your team happy, you’ve got to plan, ship and keep...

A Mac that runs Windows?!?!?!?

Holy shit! I Macintosh that runs Windows!!! “After Jobs’ presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller addressed the issue of running...

The “Famous” Book Fight

So, I read Rory’s latest comic and laughed. A lot. However, I haven’t posted it because I figured anyone who’d be amused would’ve already seen it....

Larry O’Brien on WPF

Suddenly, I think Larry O’Brien is smart: “The book, in this case, is Chris Sells and Ian Griffiths’ ‘Programming Windows Presentation Foundation.’...