I am a scientist by training. That training taught me the importance of ideas. The mythology of science emphasizes creative ideas, “Eureka!” moments, and brilliant insights. This is not wrong,…
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There is a passage of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal that has stayed with me since I read the book more than two years ago. The book is about aging and…
A friend recently asked me how to recognize a good project manager. They were asking for the purposes of hiring, so I don’t think my answer was much help. I…
My husband and I just bought a Tesla. It is a very different buying experience – done primarily by website and text message. Being an engineer and a project manager,…
Last weekend, I saw Bohemian Rhapsody, the Freddie Mercury biopic. I was not a huge Queen fan growing up, so although I knew the broad outlines of the story, the…
About a month ago, I was tagged on a tweet replying to a professor looking for good articles about project management to share with a class that would be doing…
I live in San Diego, which was not on the path for totality in Monday’s eclipse. Still, I made pinhole cameras out of cereal boxes with my kids, and I…
No, that title is not a reference to the current political situation. The current political situation, however, is partly to blame for my longer than usual period of silence here.…
I have been managing distributed teams for as long as I have been a manager. This has probably had a profound effect on how I manage overall. It is probably also…
In my last post, I wrote about the first thing I do when I take on a new project as the project manager (or whatever that particular organization calls “the…