Showing posts with label management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label management. Show all posts
Saturday, April 24, 2021

Do a Project Postmortem

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At the end of every project, give all the key project members a three or four day assignment to analyze every problem that occur...
Tuesday, February 02, 2021

Manage by Variance

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  It is difficult, if not impossible, to manage a project without a detailed plan. Once you have a plan, update it as necessary. ...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Miraculous Productivity Increases

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The technology industry is saturated with people who preach that this tool or that technique will reduce development cost. We al...
Friday, November 13, 2020

The Method Won't Save You

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We have all heard the preaching of "method zealots" who say, "If you just adopt my method, most of ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Community Adoption of New Practices

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Community adoption of new practices can mean a lot of things.  From getting a small team to try a new methodology or tool to convincing the ...
Monday, September 14, 2020

Misbehaving

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I've been listening to Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler on audiobook. In chapter 3, "The List,...
Monday, September 07, 2020

Understand Risks Up Front

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On any software project it is impossible to predict exactly what will go wrong. However, something will go wrong. In the early stages of pla...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

Avoid Standing Waves

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One of the odd side-effects of keeping your plans up-to-date is the standing wave. In this situation, you always plan to update your p...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Plan A Project In Detail

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Every software project needs a plan. The level of detail should be appropriate for the size and complexity of the project. A...
Sunday, May 10, 2020

Allocate Appropriate Resources

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Artificially constrained schedules and inappropriate budgets will doom a project regardless of the quality of the people or the availab...
Sunday, May 03, 2020

Minor Underestimates Are Not Always Bad

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Assuming morale has not been diminished, members of a project that is perceived as slightly behind schedule will tend to work hard at cat...
Friday, May 01, 2020

Reassess Schedules Regularly

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Schedules are usually set at the beginning of a project. These include intermediate deadlines as well as the product delivery deadline. A...
Saturday, April 04, 2020

Believe in the Schedule

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Probability of Project Success Once a feasible schedule is established and appropriate resources allocated, all parties must believe the...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Know Before You Count

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"Know before you count" is a software development management principle simply stated by Gerald Weinberg as, "Before you ca...
Sunday, March 01, 2020

Collect Data Unobtrusively

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Data collection is extremely important to help with future cost predictions, to assess the current state of a project or organization, to as...
Friday, February 28, 2020

You Can Optimize Whatever You Want

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Any project can optimize whatever factor of "quality" it wants to. In optimizing any one factor, other "quality" factors...
Sunday, February 09, 2020

Huge Differences Among Software Engineers

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Productivity (measured by lines of code per person-month) can vary by as much as a factor of 25 from the most to the least prolific coder...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Brooks' Law

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Measuring a project solely by person-months makes little sense. If a project could be completed in one year by six people, does that mean t...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Keep The Office Quiet

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The most productive employees and companies have quiet and private offices. They have phones that can be silenced or diverted. They are insu...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

Carry The Water

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When your people are working long hours to get a software engineering job done, you should work the same hours. This sets the right examp...