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Re: Be a Sociologist – Overnight Success

Bas de Baar — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:51:17 -0000

So true! An area that might be of interest to you this respect is project management and running virtual teams. We learn a lot from online communities and I think the online crowd can learn a lot from the insights from running teams. Sociology provides a lot of useful insights here. If anyone is interested in "Project Sociology" i have a free ebook for any one to grap (no sign up, i have nothing to sell etc. just hope it is useful :))

http://blog.softwareprojects.org/project-shrink...

Your blog is one of my favorite because as an Project Manager I learn a lot from how online communities operate. So thanks!

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - The word media is throwing people off Having...

Bas de Baar — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:45:34 -0000

how about "communication channel"?

I work in Project Management and social media is just "liberating" the communication in what we do.

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - Here she is - Misha on Twitpic

Bas de Baar — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:15:06 -0000

Congrats! Very very cute and lovely!

Re: Does Transparency Lead To More Ethical Behavior?

Bas de Baar — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:06:32 -0000

Thanks for the great resource Andrew! Yes I know things are a little more complex :) I plan to address free rider problem and agency problem too and this are fabulous additions. Thanks again.

Re: Does Transparency Lead To More Ethical Behavior?

Bas de Baar — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:04:50 -0000

Hi Pawel, I understand your point. I think there are mutiple levels of trust, or different kinds of trust. (I am not sure how to call it). I have worked multiple times with people i have never met face-2-face but have earned my "trust" by consistent good work over a longer period of time e.g. I would not give them my credit card number though.

I have never met someone from Amazon, but I do trust their site with my ccard info.

I know it's not all the same, but that is a small direction of my line of thought.

I agree that my most intense trust-relations are with people I physically have met.

Re: New Free Project Management E-book: Project Shrink Linear Edition

Bas de Baar — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:51:30 -0000

Hi Milton, thanks for the kind words. Currently reading your book and loving it! I'll be in touch soon :) ... great read! Thanks for dropping by.

Re: You Decide How You Communicate: Rules Of Engagement

Bas de Baar — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:49:58 -0000

Hi Andy, thanks! And no I haven't heard of Dee... I checked out your suggestion and that is very interesting... I put him on my research list.

Re: Looking For An Excuse To Try Twitter? Win "SharePoint For Project Management"!

Bas de Baar — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:59:14 -0000

if you are looking for resources about SharePoint check out the resource page from Dux (the author):

http://sp.meetdux.com/resou...

the article mentioned by John Moore (first comment) also looks like a worthwhile visit.

Re: Scrum And Agile Practices With Jurgen Appelo

Bas de Baar — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:12:50 -0000

Working on a post to answer your question. A it is not a simple one :) Hope to get it out soon.

Re: New Free Project Management E-book: Project Shrink Linear Edition

Bas de Baar — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:07:25 -0000

Hi all, thanks for the kind words. glad you all like it. Yes, i hope it overcomes the drawbacks of a blog format.

BTW if you have favorite postings that you would like to be included, please leave a comment.

Re: Scrum And Agile Practices With Jurgen Appelo

Bas de Baar — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:30:43 -0000

are you planning to have the colocated teams work on functional modules (end-to-end) and create an integration risk between the teams, or do you have the members of one end-to-end team (business, developer, testers etc) not co-located?

Re: Scrum And Agile Practices With Jurgen Appelo

Bas de Baar — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:50:55 -0000

as you can see at the bottom of the page: you can subscribe now with iTunes to all episodes. full video of audio only. enjoy.

Re: Managing The Gray Areas With Jerry Manas

Bas de Baar — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:11:19 -0000

Hi Andy,

I appreciate your comment. You'll love Jerry's book... hmmm, so the suit and the clean white wall works better than the shirt and the kitchen .. :)

Cheers
Bas

Re: Software Project Management Course

Bas de Baar — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:00:41 -0000

hahaha. thanks richard for noticing. 7 years is this online and you are the first to mention it :) will correct it as i didn't mean that the yo management homies r chillin... etc..

Re: Scrum And Agile Practices With Jurgen Appelo

Bas de Baar — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:20:40 -0000

Hi John, thanks for the suggestion. i will look into it. i was planning to put them on iTunes, perhaps that solves directly your problem ...

Re: Fixed Price, Agile And Outsourced. Utopia?

Bas de Baar — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:44:08 -0000

what do you want to know? :)

Re: 6 Ways To Beat Any Project Planning

Bas de Baar — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:18:35 -0000

Hi Glen, you are quite right. This is not meant as "advice".. this is just a sarcastic post about behavioral patterns i have witnessed and it should illustrate why you must be clear on goals and tasks, it should make people more aware.

This surely isn't any "advice"... I'll put a disclaimer on top of the post ... I thought that it would be clear.. apparently not. :)

Re: 6 Ways To Beat Any Project Planning

Bas de Baar — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:58:47 -0000

Thanks guys and girl :)

"6 techniques to deal with 6 ways of beating project planning"

now THAT s an interesting idea!

Re: Experiment For Your Project Survival

Bas de Baar — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:19:37 -0000

For those who like complex adaptive systems: this concept of experimenting has everything to do with fitness landscapes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik.... You can view the landcape as a 3d view, with xy axes as a position for variables (describing your situation), the z axers denotes the level of fitness for survival. So, higher peaks have a higher level of fitness.

Within a fitness landscape you are trying to look for the optimal solution. However, you don't have the overview of the entire landscape, so you can only look for local maxima (local peaks). But how do you know you are on a peak? You have to move around a little to see if you go up or go down. You need to try different variables in the landscape, you need to experiment.

Re: Define Yourself As A Professional With Margaret Meloni

Bas de Baar — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:39:09 -0000

Forgot to put in the post ... I hope everyone sees the link to last months post
"Every Project Member Needs To Be An Expert" http://blog.softwareproject...

we are talking about exactly the same... perhaps Margaret explains it better .. using a different angle :)

Re: There Is No Iron Triangle In Project Management

Bas de Baar — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:50:38 -0000

The link to the Gilb article doesn't seem to work. Goto the Gilb site: http://www.gilb.com/tiki-li...
Scroll down or search the page for "Managing Priorities", you can download from there... lots of other good stuff there to

Re: Experiment For Your Project Survival

Bas de Baar — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:19:08 -0000

WOW Andrew! Very interesting stuff (and well done)... what if aviation crew resource management were applied to software projects? great idea.

Re: Experienced Project Managers Stop Learning

Bas de Baar — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:03:36 -0000

yeah i agree. especially for PMs, we work in changing environment per definition, so we should always learn new things.

Re: Intersection Between Personal Development, Change Management And Project Management

Bas de Baar — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:02:50 -0000

thanks everyone for your comments!

basically the goals itself (market share, innovation) should guide the long term, and even will focus as a culture maker (or breaker). But also straight execution with continuous evaluation/adaption achieves the same thing (judgments have to be made against something... yep, the original vision/goal)

Re: Experiment For Your Project Survival

Bas de Baar — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:09:13 -0000

Hi Pawel, you are absolutely correct on this one.. "people" problems. It's not about the concept itself, it's what people do (or do not) with it. Experimenting is a valid approach towards uncertainty. But socially it's not (always) the dominant smart thing to "think".

I guess it depends of the context you work in how "dominant" this thinking is :)

Thanks for your contribution.