Blog Recommendation – Dr. John A Estrella’s Blog
From time to time I tour the Internet, looking for things of interest. I found Dr. Estrella’s blog, of all things, via Twitter. It was part of a #FollowFriday recommendation.
I was not sure that would make a note of the blog here. It is interesting and concise but I was not sure how much new information it brought to me. Then I saw the entry labeled, How To Manage Bad News In Your Projects. It is a short entry, which I repeat here, linked to the original.
I consistently preach transparency. Clients are never more angry than when bad news is delivered in the past tense. As the cliche says, forewarned is forearmed. It seems Estrella agrees, though I suspect we might have interesting discussions regarding actual use of trigger and tweak.
For that and other interesting entries, I suggest you check out his blog.
Blog Recommendation – Preventing Project Failure
I came across a very interesting and insightful blog about Project Management and PM’s. Called Preventing Project Failure, A Practical, Usable Blog by a PM for PMs, I found it an excellent combination of objective and subjective information. The blogger is a PMP named Michiko Diby. Her LinkedIn profile is found at http://www.linkedin.com/in/michikodiby.
Definitely worth a look.
Categories: PM Reviews, Project Management Tags: blog, blogger, LinkedIn, Michiko Diby, pmp, pms, project failure, project management
The Sorry State of Project Managers and Business Analysts | CIO – Blogs and Discussion
Has anyone noticed how trivialized two supposedly critical functions in the IT world have become? I’m talking about project managers and business analysts. I always thought of those two functions as pivotal, as make-or-break activities on any development project. (Forgive me, I thought of them as maybe even more important than the programmers.)
