I was recently asked to take over the management of a project that was already running. This wasn’t a rescue mission- the project wasn’t failing, exactly, but it wasn’t finishing…
Beyond Managing Posts
I’ve been making vague promises to write about project management techniques I learned in the Agile software development world that I think would translate well to science. This post is…
I came across a post yesterday that really made me think. Giles Bowkett posted a take-down of scrum (a popular form of agile software development) and in fact of agile…
I occasionally get asked for advice by people who are about to make the transition from academia to industry: they’ve successfully navigated the path to industry and landed their first…
We all know micromanagement is bad. It leads to a loss of autonomy, which decreases motivation, which in turn decreases productivity. (The research on this is summarized in Daniel Pink’s…
I recently read the book Breakthrough, by Thea Arthur and Arthur Ainsberg. It is the story of the discovery of insulin and its initial production for use to treat diabetics,…
I am the sort of person who thinks thing through and comes to understand them more thoroughly by writing about them. I have long-standing interests in management (of people and…