Previously in Part 4 of Business for Geeks, I mentioned two key points in the idea generation process: Establish your vision and Evaluation against your goals Lots of people seem to have trouble coming up with what their goals are and I suspect this reason is due to one of two reasons: either a) they've […]
As part of Scott Berkun's never-ending effort to bring better Project Management to the world, every week he sends out a scenario to the his PMClinic mailing list to get feedback, thoughts, and strategies from the community. There are some smart people on the list and the discussion is always interesting, but last week during […]
When my local used bookstore closed a few months ago, I was heartbroken. Just about once a month, the wife and I would go, spend an hour or so and end up with a pretty extensive stack of books for very good prices. I managed to catch up on a handful of series I had […]
Since I wrote my first commentary on Eric Sink's Career Calculus, a year and a half has passed and I thought I should reassess: What have I done to sharpen and expand my skills? Magazines – I recently took stock of my magazine subscriptions and was amazed by the sheer number of them. I have […]
We all understand what it means when someone is 100% allocated: their entire working time is assigned to some set of tasks. If they're 50% allocated, they have half of their time assigned. It's all pretty straightforward and we all know what it means… but what about from the Project's perspective? What does percent assignment […]
For any who are/aren't interested, I have finalized my conference schedule for the rest of the year. First, I will be speaking at the DC PHP conference on REST Web Services. I'm working on a Secret Project(tm) with REST right now and it seemed quite fitting. IThe conference runs 19-20 October right here in Washington, […]
I have to say that I've been following the Java vs Ruby war for quite a while. Initially it started as a passing interest due to Nola Stowe's evangelism and heckling. I had a completely wrong idea of what it was and demonstrated that ignorance in this space but once I went to a presentation […]
About six months ago, I started work on a small PHP project. It involved a relatively simple concept with an identical method of loading and displaying content but each set would have a custom look and feel*. It seemed liked a relatively straight-forward small-scale Content Management System with a transform layer in front. At the […]
For the past month or so, I have been fighting with an annoying little dotProject issue. It seemed like a relatively simple thing, but it just kept cropping up. About 3am local time on Sunday morning a few weeks ago, I finally tracked it down and fixed the first half of it… the second half […]
Last month there were quite a few angsts in the dotProject's Mantis about a mysteriously shifting end date time (#1729). Here's the primary scenario: You – being the good team member that you are – log hours on your projects as soon as you work them. Somewhere along the line, you realized that an estimate […]