Very interesting presentation in the InfoQ site called Agile Project management: Lessons Learned at Google.
Jeff Sutherland, the creator of Scrum, talks about his visit at Google to do an analysis of Google’s first implementation of Scrum. He tells how Google started with no engineering management, then gradually introduced Scrum without spoiling the development culture formed [...]

By art_as_anna
Personally, I think that having a certification (in the IT space) is usually a good sign of commitment and shows a great tension to personal improvement … and often nothing more.
Moreover I don’t think is usually a real preference in evaluating a potential candidate: it doesn’t add a decisive contribution to the real [...]

You are in a Project Review. A problem is detected.
Boss1 <<Tom, have a look at the problem and let me know if you are in troubles>>
Boss2 <<Tom, have a look at the problem, collect this and this, check that and that, and then come and show me what you found>>
Which Boss do you prefer? Can [...]

Being a manager implies to have great self control and modesty. Unfortunately ever human that gain power tends to overdo … and that’s true for managers too!
It’s like babies: they ape adults to learn … and sometimes they overdo. Even worst result when the model is ‘dangerous’.
PierG

As you know if you read this blog, I’m involved in studying the relationship between IT departments and other departments and how this relationship is different.
A client of mine has received this email recently:
Why do we need all these docs / emails to authorize / perform this task? Change the way in which you do [...]

You probably know the well known T-Shirt from ThinkGeek: No, I will not fix your computer .
There is also the opposite syndrome, very well known too, that many IT geeks have both in their professional life and in their personal life.
Fitzgerald (the geek) will come in your house, look at your PC, and [...]

By joebeone
<< Thank you Hal and congratulations: you did an excellent job >>
How much does it take? 5 seconds! How big is the result? HUGE: it makes both happy, more willing to share, more willing to do, more willing to improve ….
And the emotional reward is huge even if:

the ‘job’ was small
it’s [...]

By odysseus

Let me suggest a very good post Obama and the Rise of Asymmetrical Competition by Umair Haque.
Umar makes an interesting comparison between the US Democratic nomination and innovative strategies of well known ‘new’ brands like Google. In both these scenarios there are big, powerful, rich, consolidated players challenged by newcomers with a different DNA.

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 By jurvetson
If you Google “decision making”, you get tons of results: in the first page, except the very first entry (that’s wikipedia ), there is a list of techniques, tools, strategies to achieve good decisions.
These techniques are surely useful and I think AN AVERAGE WELL-TIMED DECISION is by far better then a PERFECT LATE [...]

Let me suggest a very good blog about IT called Having IT Your Way that you can read in the Harvard Business Publishing site.
Here is what Susan Cramm writes on her first post:
I’ve decided to step out again - this time by sharing the secrets of how IT works and helping you, the business leader, [...]