Archive for the ‘Management’ Category

Project Management is great. Sometimes.

Saturday, April 30th, 2005

If you work in software development you've probably been in or at least heard of a situation like this before: the boss wants some new swanky bit of tech and you're the developer assigned the job. Not a problem... you love new challenges and this one seems like it'll be ...

Recent reading list.

Wednesday, May 5th, 2004

I've been reading a lot of work-related books lately... in fact, just last night I finished reading "Peopleware". It's been on my "To Read" list for a while and has been recommended to me by many, many people. After reading it I can see why. The authors, Tom DeMarco and Timothy ...

Email from your boss could put you at a health risk.

Sunday, January 11th, 2004

According to a BBC article a friend sent me there are apparently health risks involved when a boss sends a threatening email to his or her workers. According to the article, "[ Experts from Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College] found that blood pressure shot up if emails were from their superiors ...