Having gotten the Sunlight Foundation over the hump technologically with their Sunlight Media Services platform/product, it’s time to start looking for my next great success.
If anyone out there is looking for some project help, or some support/ideas on improving infrastructure, leveraging new technologies or development environments, I’m happy to start a conversation.
I read Mr Shmaltz’s book - The Blind Man and the Elephant some years ago. It was a wonderful, short treatise on project management. Having just found his blog, I highly recommend this article:
Why Project Managers Can’t Manage Projects
It’s a little abstract, but very insightful. “Who are the chickens?” you might ask - well, most of you are. You’re in control, but nobody seems to acknowledge that (often including you), and that’s why the project fails.
Courtesy of Johanna Rothman, but you’ll need to register (free) to read the article. She gives some good advice about how to handle slips early in a project, during the middle of the project, and then an all-too-familiar story about slips late in the project, and how the team got there by focusing on the plan and ignoring reality.
Which, (my words) ultimately, can be summed up as:
Hat tip: Hal Macomber