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TECHNOLOGY COLUMN
MARK STENCEL

A Vote for Better Design

Election problems last year proved that poor ‘usability’ is more than an annoyance or an aesthetic complaint.

A year of electronic forensics has failed to resolve what went wrong at the polls in Florida’s Sarasota County last November, when 18,000 voters mysteriously appeared to skip clicking on a [...]

Introducing Apollo

Mike Chambers

Adobe

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19 March 2007

Today we posted the first public prerelease builds of Apollo on Adobe Labs—the result of over a year and a half of development. While we are very excited to finally get Apollo into your hands, we still have a lot of work to do.

What [...]

Programming in Ruby

Ruby is a freely available pure, untyped, object-oriented language. Dave and Andy show how to use the language, while Yukihiro Matsumoto (Ruby’s creator) adds a note on why he developed it.

By Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, Dr. Dobb’s Journal
Jan 01, 2001
URL:http://www.ddj.com/web-development/184404436

Dave and Andy are consultants and coauthors of Programming Ruby [...]

Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time

Key ideas from the Harvard Business Review article By Tony Schwartz,

Catherine McCarthy

The Idea in Brief

Organizations are demanding ever-higher performance from their workforces. People are trying to

comply, but the usual method–putting in longer hours–has backfired. They’re getting exhausted,

disengaged, and sick. And they’re defecting to healthier job environments.

Longer days at the office [...]

Managing Projects in a Multi-tasking Environment This seminars provides a process for resolving a common problem in IT – employees are working not just on multiple projects, but on normal operations at the same time. Everything is a Number 1 priority, and what gets worked on depends o who has the loudest voice this week.

Leading Clever People

Key ideas from the Harvard Business Review article By Rob Goffee ,

Gareth Jones

The Idea in Brief

Who most determines your company’s success? Clever people—employees whose knowledge

and skills enable them to produce disproportionate value for your firm. Think the pharmaceutical

researcher who formulates a new drug, or the programmer who creates a new piece of code. [...]

AGILE PROJECT LEADERSHIP
What Does an Agile Project Plan Look Like?
by Kent McDonald

 
I was talking recently with some project managers who were trying to understand what Agile is really all about, when someone asked me how agile project management is different than traditional PM techniques. I pondered that question for a little bit, There are several [...]

AGILE PROJECT LEADERSHIP

Questions from the Field

by Kent McDonald

Because I often find myself introducing agile principles to project managers and business analysts, I was recently asked to facilitate a couple of roundtable discussions surrounding the idea of Agile Project Leadership for the local PMI chapter. As part of those discussions I asked the participants to indicate [...]

SCRAPPY PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project Management Dialogues with ATTITUDE!

by Kimberly M. Wiefling, M.S.
This Month’s Featured Noggin’ Floggin’:
Agile Methodologies: Age-old Ideas in Fancy New Clothes

This summer I spent 35 days working in Japan, and the journey was chock full of surprises and disasters, personal and otherwise. Not only did my brand new computer fail mysteriously mid-trip (brand name [...]

Agile Project Leadership
Leading from Within: Supporting the Right Project Team
by Kent McDonald

In my last article, I provided some thoughts on picking the right project team. This time around, I thought I would extend that thought and provide some ideas on what to do with that team once you have it formed.

Let’s face it, if you [...]