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The Democracy at Work Weekly Tip: Let Employees Reconfigure Their Workspace / WorldBlu
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Add Sticky NoteThe team frequently takes advantage of this freedom of choice by rearranging the workspace as needed to fit the needs of the project on which they are working. In fact, their CEO, Rich Sheridan recently told me often he comes to work after being away on a business trip only to find that even his desk has been moved!
- is this a big deal? - on 2009-10-20
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.
Facebook | Message: Some good videos
Some interviews - perhaps useful for learning spoken Mandarin. I haven't seen them yet. Recommended by Paul Zhou.
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Jason Zhang, His firm has been growing much more these few years.
CG -- Encountering Cooperative Extremists
Coping with conflict in a democratic enterprise
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# The point is not to avoid conflict over tough issues but to avoid disruption of operations and the breakdown of constructive communication.
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)
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.
Five whys - Joel on Software
This sounds like a good approach for controlling a highly reliable service.
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Instead of setting up a SLA for our customers, we set up a blog where we would document every outage in real time, provide complete post-mortems, ask the five whys, get to the root cause, and tell our customers what we're doing to prevent that problem in the future.
Impressions of India 4 - UK/Indian SME Partnerships - Ecademy
Readable concise article with John Cave's views on outsourcing operations to India.
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And of course don't just look at cost, you wouldn't automatically go for the cheapest supplier in the UK, nor should you when looking for a supplier in India. Remember that everyone in the chain from customer to outsourced supplier/JV Partner needs to be looked after, so don't be greedy.
The Annual Layoff Immunization (Part 1 of 2) » Manager Tools Blog Archive
Printed contact list, at home, of 100 contacts, current in the last 180 days - with physical address, 1 preferably 2 phone numbers, email address, and names of spouses and children.
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In the same way that “Finances Rule” when it comes to being laid off, PREPARATION makes the entire process so much easier.
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
Elemica - overview
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Elemica streamlines business processes to:
Remove redundant inventory for improved forecasting
Automate slow and manual processing of many routine transactions
Optimize complex and simple logistics networks
Manage unwieldy documentation flows
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.
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.
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