Carnival of project management #9

The moving went as well as could be expected, although a few important things (like my hairbrush) ended up in storage instead of going with me. I’ve settled into my temporary accommodation now – and hopefully it won’t be too long before my apartment is ready and I can move in properly. So to celebrate having my PC back…

Welcome to delayed 21 May 2007 edition of the carnival of project management. Just a few choice articles for you this month: I was really strict with the entries and weeded out a lot of stuff.

Mary Shaw presents How To Conduct Effective Meetings posted at webheadz.net. This is a great article. You think it is easy to organise a meeting – but it doesn’t hurt to refresh the basics, as so many meetings are a waste of time. Thanks Mary!

Stephen Ward presents Are CRM and Proper Development Mutually Exclusive? posted at Project Paradox. An interesting question (not least because it forces us to ask, “What is ‘proper’ development?”). And no answer here – but a good explanation of the problem!

Adam Knife presents Feature Driven Development posted at Code Hippo, saying, “for development projects.” This is another prompt for me to look more into Agile – I keep meaning to get round to it.

Christine Kane presents How to Get Nothing Done posted at Christine Kane’s Blog. Just great! Christine is always funny.

Jack Yoest presents Is the Manager Obsolete? Or When Does Consensus Stop? posted at Reasoned Audacity, saying, “Does business need managers? Or first-line supervisors? Or should organizations simply go Greek and give every citizen-employee a voice and a vetoing vote? The corporation as pure democracy. This was the theme of a Wall Street Journal article, Managing: Can a Company Be Run as a Democracy?” This is the first time I’ve seen this blog – this entry is worth it just for the hierarchy diagram.

Pawel Brodzinski presents Customer Is Always Right posted at Software Project Management, saying, “Simple but efficient approach to communication with customers. Of course without some common sense it can be misused like everything else.”

Plus a late entry from Laura Young Is All Your Planning Really Self-Sabotage? posted at Dragon Slayer’s Guide to Life. It’s around getting your life sorted, but her ideas will also apply to office life. Planning is not progress: will have to put that up on my desk!

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