"The “management team” isn’t the “decision making” team. It’s a support function. You may want to call them administration instead of management, which will keep them from getting too big for their britches."

"You're so busy, doing everything yourself. You know you need help, but to find and train someone would take more time than you have! So you keep working harder, until you break."

"The world of management theorists remains exempt from accountability. In my experience, for what it’s worth, consultants monitored the progress of former clients about as diligently as they checked up on ex-spouses (of which there were many). Unless there was some hope of renewing the relationship (or dating a sister company), it was Hasta la vista, baby. And why should they have cared? Consultants’ recommendations have the same semantic properties as campaign promises: it’s almost freakish if they are remembered in the following year."

"There are two useful types of meetings: alignment and creation. Briefly, alignment meetings are tactical communication exchanges that rarely dive into the strategic. These are fine meetings that have a weekly cadence, and while there are lots of ways to screw up these meetings, their tactical repetition often keeps them on the rails. Creation meetings — diving into solving a hard problem — involve, well, more creativity. Each hard problem requires a unique solution, and finding that solution is where creation meetings can go bad."

More money isn't one of them.

"When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in. Plus you have to remember to go to the meeting. That's no problem for someone on the manager's schedule. There's always something coming on the next hour; the only question is what. But when someone on the maker's schedule has a meeting, they have to think about it."

Beautiful. Need an iPhone version.

"The way we do this is by having a 1-hour meeting every Tuesday morning where my manager presents a PDF report that outlines these figures and colours the report either Red (we're in trouble and we better do something about it), Yellow (We're in danger, but it's fixable) or Green (we're on track to achieve our goals)."

"A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure."

"An example of cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it". They therefore suffer an illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average."

"It turns out that Best Buy has embraced the use of social media to empower it’s employees and reaped massive productivity gains as a result."

"Time is the most perishable good in the world, and it is not replenishable. You can’t earn an extra hour to use on a busy day. Nonetheless, we usually have a vague feeling that there is plenty of time — somewhere in the future — so we waste it now and carelessly steal time from our families, friends or ourselves when we come up short at the end of a workday and need to stay an extra hour."

Basecamp for bands. Nice idea, but pricing looks a bit skewiff.

"The Featured Artists' Coalition campaigns for the protection of performers' and musicians' rights. We want all artists to have more control of their music and a much fairer share of the profits it generates in the digital age."

"For some time now, I have thought that high-level project roadmaps (Gantt charts in particular) are one of the most worthless documents that a software project team can produce."

"Here’s another take on that: Fire the people who are workaholics!"

"An online proofing system that helps you manage the way that you and your team review, proof and approve documents."

"Nothing can substitute for depth of analysis, and there's proven value in specialization – it's what education, career paths, scientific research, and technological innovation are built on – but generalism is a secret talent."

"I know that this is all a waste of time if there's no follow-through from management. But assuming that the required support is there, how do you guys do process documentation?"

"Some people are naturally wide, some people are naturally deep. But the assumption is, in most business contexts, that you can — and should want to — jump between the two as the need or situation dictates. But this is a load of crap."

"Articles on how design is managed, with practical ideas and real-life examples of design being used for business success."

"How many projects have you worked on where the implementation team gave any consideration to the way people would be affected by the changes the new system would impose on them?"

"This syndrome occurs when, rather than working toward its overall mission, the organization operates primarily according to the personality of a prominent person in the organization, for example, the founder, board chair/president, chief executive, etc"

"It’s the difference between troubleshooters and troublepreventors."

"What skills you’ll need, how to write your requirements, how to source developers and designers, how much to budget, how to agree a development contract, how to manage your vendors, how to plan your release, all the documentation you'll need, and much

"This book isn't just about management, it's about creating places where people can comfortably build stuff."

"Based on the paradoxical notion that anarchists have to be more organized than average if they don’t want to depend on power structures, and presents some ideas on how to kick the boss habit."

"You can Change Your Organization or Change Your Organization."

"What project management (PM) is and what it isn't, [...] basics of the project lifecycle, [...] tools that you can use to make your projects run smoother, faster, and easier"

"3×5 notecards for studying the patterns in the book, Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas"

"Conducting effective interviews requires a balance of instinct, insight, and some solid preparation. It also helps if you don't make certain blunders, such as monopolizing the conversation, asking leading questions, or applying too much (or too little) p

"Negotiation is not debate."

"For years the Adobe Photoshop team has been trying to get away from the traditional death march to a more agile development style. For its CS3 release, it made the jump, with the help of VP Dave Story."

"Planix is a hosted application that enables project teams to consistently and accurately estimate the resources, scheduling and cost of their software development projects."

"One of the difficulties for a first-time project manager is that being a great project resource (i.e. team member) is what gets you the job as project manager, nine times out of ten. Unfortunately, the characteristics of a great project resource are not

"Most companies do a good job of providing incremental improvements to existing products and processes. What are those few who struggle with innovation doing wrong?"

"...brings simplicity back to time tracking. Quick to set up and easy to use, it provides you with insights on how your organization is spending its time."

"Project management doesn’t have to be complicated or time consuming, in fact I’m arguing that it’s better if it’s not."

"While it would be great to have programmers who are also great at sales, graphic design, system administration, and cooking, it's unrealistic. Like teaching a pig to sing, it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

"Your developers have just planned a two week iteration. The next day Sarah continues her work on the completion of an important New Project. And here it comes - Urgent Stuff:"

"Organize special events, from conferences and workshops to parties, gigs, and receptions."

"The #1 rule of good criticism is be specific."

"Web-based collaboration tool for business teams to manage projects, share information and communicate with others." Basecamp alternative?

"An easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool" similar to 37signal's Basecamp.

"Quick & Easy Accessible CMS, Weblog and Podcasting Software."

"Best Working Conditions → Best Programmers → Best Software → Profit!"

"Determine if you need hacks, how to manage them effectively if so, and which hacks you can employ to solve a range of common compatibility problems."