Project Fu

Reforming Project Management

I used to totally disrespect project management as a discipline. I saw it as needless bureaucracy, as paper pushing control freakery. The hard stuff of software is the technology, right?

As I've gotten older, and earned a collection of development bruises, I've changed my tune. In technology, the soft skills are the hardest thing. Getting multiple hotshot programmers to agree to a single standard, creating a timeline that's anything more than a pure guess, and creating a project structure that minimizes the chance of a political logjam are really difficult.

Hal Macomber offers up a project management weblog, that looks at new developments in project management theory. If you're not married to a PM methodology, you'll find plenty of ideas from which you can pick and choose.