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Co-opetition - Barry Nalebuff Yale School of Management - 1996
This 'game theory' way of thinking is being popularized in the UK by Vince Cable. As well as advice for entrepreneurs, there are interesting ideas here for project procurement strategies. Looking more deeply, inspired by the "hidden costs of bidding" s
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Competition is valuable:
Don't give it away,
Get paid to play ... Cash
Contribution to upfront
expenses
Guaranteed sales contract
Last-look
Access to people
Access to information
How to be a program manager - Joel on Software
New article (March 9, 2009) with some of Joel's early experiences at Microsoft. Not sure if the 'program manager' title isn't inflation, but I think his ideas on human dynamics are spot on.
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you probably don’t have one on your team, because most teams don’t.
They meant well | Steve Baker (book review)
Some heavy ideology here. I wonder if the projects here have been cherry-picked to make a point.
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It analyses in detail:
* The R101 Airship
* The groundnut scheme
* Nuclear power
* Concorde
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My own ’solution’ is simply: let the market work. To proceed with more large government quasi-commercial projects would be a recipe for further expensive disasters.
Co-op bank scans letter into emails - Infomatics
Interesting programme
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The system will process and index 10,000 inbound insurance and retail banking letters and turn them into emails.
Writer » Taming OpenOffice.org
This looks like a useful jumping off point for advanced uses of OpenOffice.org Writer
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Tips for using OOo Writer
I recommend Solveig Haugland’s blog, which is full of great explanations, hints, and tips on using OpenOffice.org. Here are some examples of her work on Writer:
* Using styles in OpenOffice.org (15 Nov 06)
* Styles Tip: Importing a Template With Completely Different Style Names, in OpenOffice Writer (13 Nov 06)
Intervals: web-based project management - Download Squad
Sounds like a useful timesheet service.
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All plans support web timers (to track how long you spend on a given project)
The 101 most useful websites - Telegraph
Backpack and several other collaborative web applications are on this English paper's top 101.
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6 Backpack
www.backpackit.com
To-do lists, notes, ideas and calendar. Excellent for juggling projects and much more versatile than a ring folder.
The pm411.org Project Management Podcast
Quite interesting - 26 episodes here ranging from 8 minutes to 45 minutes in length. The one I am sampling (number 26) sounds like a lecture, so if that is what you want, take a listen.
Openstructure: A Call for Open Source Reform
A brilliant paper with several challenging soundbites. However the restructuring it proposes is radical and I am not yet convinced.
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...if IT managers admitted one dirty little secret: it is very hard to understand technology! That is why the industry is so rife with buzzwords...the marketing departments have got you. No matter how objective you think you are, you will inevitably find yourself choosing a brand name....after the decades of waste in IT it is time for a new level of accountability...I believe they could demand a greater accountability and openness from the industry. And there is no better way to be "open", than to avoid the kind of marketing double-talk that you find on the websites of most of the companies I have discussed.
PM Lifeline.com - The Portal for Project Managers
Looks like a useful portal, though the events diary seems several months out of date
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Latest jobs from PMStaff.co.uk:
Project Manager Oxford �27047
Programme Manager Greater London �90000
Project & Programme Professionals North West �neg
Project Manager East Midlands �35000
Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth - Joel on Software
and now for the bad news
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if your strategy is "80/20", you're going to have trouble selling software. That's just reality. This strategy is as old as the software industry itself and it just doesn't pay;
Computing Business - a blog from computing.co.uk
So some sources suggest a shortage of PMs, but suggests a glut. We don't really know.
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NCC reported recently that three quarters (73 per cent) of firms have a need for new skills, with project management skills seen as a high priority area for business, despite fears of a downturn.
LinkedIn: Answers: Hello network - I'm increasingly seeing a demand from my clients to use a project planning online diary. Has anyone come across a w
Some short sweet answers in this debate (free registration may be required.) There is a recommendation for Basecamp which I like for its simplicity, and offer it to my clients.
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Projectplace (see link below) allows you to create, store, manage and share documents with your clients and includes a 'project callander'
Manager Tools - Tools for Leaders and Managers
I am listening to the first few minutes of one of these podcasts, but judging by the summaries, they will be quite interesting for any manager
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The Annual Layoff Immunization (Part 1 of 2)
How to Set Annual Goals (Part 3 of 3)
One on One Scheduling Guidance (Part 2 of 2)
How to Handle a Group Interview
Seth's Blog: Really Bad Powerpoint
Speeches with powerpoint but without the death
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No more than six words on a slide. EVER. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.
OpenProj | Projity
Critical path scheduling software - open source and apparently in Java.
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It even opens existing Microsoft or Primavera files. OpenProj shares the industry's most advanced scheduling engine with Project-ON-Demand and has Gantt Charts, Network Diagrams (PERT Charts), WBS and RBS charts, Earned Value costing and more.
Lisp in Web-Based Applications - Paul Graham 2001
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One way we used macros was to generate Html. There is a very natural fit between macros and Html, because Html is a prefix notation like Lisp, and Html is recursive like Lisp....In fact it turned out that Web consultants didn't like Viaweb.
Consultants, as a general rule, like to use products that are too
hard for their clients to use, because it guarantees them ongoing
employment....But by using closures, we could make it
look to the user, and to ourselves, as if we were just doing a
subroutine call.
Bill Clementson's Blog - How to make money with Lisp
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Again, Lisp shines as an alternative development language when you start talking about small, autonomous business units that are individually accountable for their own profit margins.
Community - Greenspun PANDA
Updated in 2003 - Lots of suggestions for saving money building a community web service (around a learning experience or a product category for example), comments on ERP development, and a proposal for a user-scripted community system - which sounds like
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The programmers working from Toolkit40 will have to write six times as many features, but they will only have to read one-twentieth as much code. ...a project built on top of the lean, clean Toolkit40 will attract better people than a project built on top of bloated confusing Toolkit90. ...Each company that adopts an ERP system only needs a handful of new features. Yet because of the complexity of the ERP toolkit as shipped, those features will take several years, 100 programmers, and $50 million to implement...The most useful and innovative services of all are often algorithms specified by users that run on the publisher's server, e.g., "send me mail every Monday and Thursday nights if there are any new articles by my friend Judy".
The programming chapters of this book illustrate the power and reliability of this software architecture for ecommerce and Web applications that replace desktop apps.
jwz - The CADT Model
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It hardly seems worth even having a bug system if the frequency of from-scratch rewrites always outstrips the pace of bug fixing.
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