I should start off this segment by defining what I consider “planning” to be. Planning is not just scheduling, although many ‘project managers’ I’ve encountered in my career consider the creation of a project schedule the totality of their planning work. For me...
more...A number of years ago, a company for which I was working acquired a competitor. The competitor’s business had to be folded into my company’s operations quickly to stem drastically declining revenue. A very major portion of that folding had to take place in one of the...
more...Over the course of my career I’ve managed many projects – from small, straight-forward software development projects for one department in an organisation to global system roll-outs across multiple continents and time-zones. I’ve learned a number of lessons along the way, read some really...
more...In order to reward, recognise, and celebrate, of course, you need to know what success looks like. Without understanding what constitutes successfully crossing the finish line, teams struggle to move forward. And, managers will have a very difficult time...
more...One book I read relatively early in my management career was Principle Centered Leadership by Stephen Covey. I highly recommend this book to anyone, and especially to those who find themselves in leadership roles. Relatively late in...
more...I've spent most of my career managing teams in one form or another. Like most of us, having experienced a variety of team cultures and dynamics, I knew what appealed to me, and what resulted in grumbling from me and my colleagues. While I certainly wasn't a star at creating effective teams...
more...I've had the domain sdsheridan.com for a few years now, and ironically never really did anything with it. Well, it's time to change that, and so with a new year comes a re-launch of my domain, and the promise to at least attempt to keep it current and topical. I've also published on this site...
more...Look for the following in the overall agreement (either yours or the vendor’s).
As you review the license agreement, look for the following:
A few years ago I wrote a guide for a client on what the lead negotiators needed to think about when negotiating a contract for a piece of software that was going to be highly strategic to the client's business. This post is largely from that set of guidelines, itself which came from a number...
more...No software engineering shop is perfect, as human beings are by nature prone to error. So, not only do we want to determine what we can do to avoid defects altogether, but failing that, what can we do better to “nip them in the bud”, before they explode in...
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