Getting a Granular View of a Product Release
“The word launch means different things to different people. To some, it means the time when the product has completed the technical development phase...
Category: Management 2.0
Baby-Stepping Your Way into Project Management
After spending the first 15 or so years of my career largely in Project Management roles, I’m sort of a PM junkie when it...
The Maturity Model of Social
In a CMSWire article today entitled The Social Networking Phenomena is Coming Apart at the Seams, Virginia Backaitis discussed a recent Forbes.com article in...
Treat Every System as a Production System
For those who are familiar with my background, you know I spent a year and a half of my Microsoft tenure with the team...
Building Out the IAMCP
I’ve often described myself as a builder. It’s what attracted me to startups early in my career, and often has me hanging around other...
When Marketing is Effective
In the late 1990’s, I took a role as Director of Project Management for a newly public technology company based south of market in...
Re-Thinking the Performance Review
In her October 2011 Harvard Business Review article The Cure for Horrible Bosses, Rosabeth Moss Kanter identifies many of the all-too-familiar pains associated with...
Remembering End Users in IT Project Planning
Fact: the more you involve end users in your planning, the more likely they are to support your initiative later. If you’ve seen one...
Starting a Community is Hard
<reflecting>Sometime in early 2002, I was working for a startup in Redwood City, California, and was approached by some folks I had met in...
Hyperspecialization as a Leadership Tool
In their Harvard Business Review article The Age of Hyperspecialization, researchers Thomas Malone, Robert Laubacher, and Tammy Johns highlight the rapidly transforming workplace, and...
