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PM Quote of the Day — Vince Lombardi
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. When I was younger, I never got the point of practice. Sure, I knew that it would get me in shape and knock of the rust off....
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PM Quote of the Day — Pauline Kael
[T]he critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. This quote came to mind as we’ve been going through an internal program’s requirements. One of my colleagues...
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Still looking down in checklists?
Just saw this article of the power of checklists in medicine (here) which reminded me that I had forgotten to include a link in an earlier post (here). Atul Gawande wrote a long piece in the New...
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Heresy on Stage Gates
Old school Q-Gate Glen Alleman tells us why he doesn’t like stage gates (here) and a number of readers respond in the comments. Per my comment, ”gates” (we call them Q-Gates) are pointless if they...
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More on stage gates and project reviews
Not stage gate experts... Per an earlier post (here), it is important to ask how to ensure that stage gates — and project reviews for that matter — are relevant to the project at hand. It’s pretty...
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Can personal shortcomings undermine recovery? (Mini Case Part 1)
I concede that projects can recover — at least for a time — without sustainable personal and professional behaviors in place. Heroic measures to catch up on accumulated technical debt, more testers to...
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Why personal behaviors impact testing
My last post used testing to illustrate the consequences of questionable personal behavior on a business situation. Quality is susceptible to personal and professional gaps that interact to amplify...
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The Incentive/Behavior Nexus
Steve Kerr uses a General Motors cautionary tale to show us that it isn’t enough to have incentives that appear to reward desired behavior. In this HBR blog post, he notes that: Although managers’...
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The Apple 8.0.1 Debacle: Whom to blame?
Marc Andreessen drew my attention to a Bloomberg article that laid out what it purported to be “links” with the failed Maps launch. @pmarca was properly skeptical of the article: General principle:...
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