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Clarification to Paired Experts Post
FYI I’ve just appended a small clarification to the end of my recent Pairing and Experts post, clarifying what’s meant by “expert”.
People Skills for Everyone
I was talking to my Mum recently. I mentioned that I’m becoming even more interested in people skills, and she said, “Oh, so you’re interested in management then.”
Actually, no.
- I’m interested in people who are not managers improving their people skills.
- I’m interested in busting the myth that
Email Subscriptions
You can now subscribe to email updates from this blog. This should be handy if you prefer email to RSS. Just go to the new Subscribe page on the menu bar.
PS If you spot any problems with the email subscription, please let me know. I’ve never used this particular… Read more
Earned Value Starter Kit
At the end of my talk on Earned Value, I’ve been giving away the “Earned Value Starter Kit” that we put together at Optimation. It is a fairly simple spreadsheet, which makes it easier to get started with ‘lite’ Earned Value. In case you miss out on a copy,… Read more
Encyclopedia Article
This page provides shortcuts to my Earned Value article in the Encyclopedia of Software Engineering.
- Link to online copy. As of 27 June 2011, you can purchase just the EV article (without having to buy the whole encyclopedia.)
- Hard copy of the whole encyclopedia (about 120 articles on
Recent Earned Value Posts of Interest
Glen Alleman posted on the difficulty (or otherwise) of the maths in EVM, and several of us commented. He followed that with an example in which the maths is very simple, which I quite liked as an introduction to Earned Value.
Marcin Niebudek wrote an article, in which… Read more
Speaking on Earned Value at NZ Computer Society Conference
I’ll be speaking at the New Zealand Computer Society’s 50th Anniversary Conference, on the topic of Earned Value Management.
I’m looking forward to being part of an interesting conference, and hopefully helping to lift the profile of EVM in New Zealand.
( The abstract’s reference… Read more
Added transcript to People Skills video
This week’s “People Skills for Nerds” post now includes a written transcript of the talk. (For those who, like me, prefer to read than to watch videos ;-)
People Skills for Nerds – a Summary Video
This video summarises they key points I aim to make in this blog, that people skills are:
- Important, and
- Learnable (with time and practice)
The video is an edited extract of my talk at the AgileRoots conference, at Salt Lake City in 2009. For the benefit of people… Read more
Converting to WordPress
Regular visitors may notice the site looks a bit different. I am transitioning to WordPress. Initially, all the old pages will be available both as WordPress posts and at their old URLs. I will eventually redirect requests for the old ones to the new URLs instead.
By the way, this… Read more