Project Shrink

I talked before about the importance of getting into the habit of leaving comments on posts and other media. My friend Ali Anani takes it even a step further in his great presentation “Comments On Slideshare Their Mapping and Value Added. Comments On SlideShare Their Mapping And Value Added View more presentations from Ali Anani. [...]

You can meet some awesome people on the Internet. Last year I got into contact with Margaret Meloni. Talking about awesome. Lately we have been discussing the value of leveraging the internet and social media. Margaret consults with individuals and organizations on the topic of conflict resolution and she coaches professionals in advancing their careers. [...]

The Project Shrink is three years old this week. July 15th 2007 I created this blog and called it “Project Shrink”, because I wanted to emphasize “human behavior” in projects and I have difficulty pronouncing “Project Sociologist”. In 3 years I wrote 468 blog posts. Although perhaps not always obvious, all posts are based upon [...]

Some people still wonder how Twitter can be useful. Short 140 character messages about what you had for lunch. Hmph! Although I got some great lunch suggestions from the Twitterverse, this is not why I find it useful. Hal Macomber explained microblogging as being able to stick your head out of your cubicle and ask: [...]

“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals. We know now that it is bad economics.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt Don’t you just love Kiva. Without having an idea about the internals of the organization, in my opinion, their contribution to society is awesome. And it’s not just this micro-lending organization that is [...]

The first thing I do when I visit a large foreign city is … take a Hop-on-hop-off bus. Easy and convenient way to get a guided tour through a new place. So, I wondered, why not do this for the web? Stop 1: John Cleese rants – Soccer vs Football Let me do this while [...]

Software projects are about humans… They’ve always been. During my study, I got inspired by Barry Boehm’s Theory W, everything Fred Brooks has written, Tom DeMaro and Tom Lister, and Alistair Cockburn. Actually, “The Mythical Man Month” (affiliate link) by Brooks is still one of my all time favorite classics. That is why I was [...]

The first thing I do when I visit a large foreign city is … take a Hop-on-hop-off bus. Easy and convenient way to get a guided tour through a new place. So, I wondered, why not do this for the web? Stop 1: Business Analysts Survey And Free Framework Poster The guys over at Aotea [...]

While preparing a workshop stakeholder management, I came across an article I wrote four years ago. Using Stakeholder Analysis in Software Project Management “Every improvement you make with the goal of improving your ability to do projects better should involve how to handle the human element more effectively, as this is the area where we [...]

The first thing I do when I visit a large foreign city is … take a Hop-on-hop-off bus. Easy and convenient way to get a guided tour through a new place. So, I wondered, why not do this for the web? Stop 1: Yes, Leadership Changes in a Web 2.0 World I have been working [...]