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15
Sep
Why your estimate was right and the project was still late
Here's a scene every delivery person knows. The project lands late. The retro convenes. The estimates are exhumed
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13
Sep
The free courses worth finishing: SEO
New series, same rules as the books. Online courses need a "worth finishing" filter even more than books
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11
Sep
Do you read without blinking?
I have a complicated relationship with reading. Always have. I'm dyslexic, which means the thing book-people describe,
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09
Sep
The status meeting that manufactures surprises
In an earlier article about learning from bad managers, one line kept coming back to me afterwards: if people only
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01
Sep
The Scope Creep dictionary
Every profession has it's own language, and project management's is unusual in one respect: almost none
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26
Aug
How to step on toes (and be thanked for it)
A while back I wrote about the moment that made me a project manager: sitting in a meeting, watching a
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26
Aug
CSS animations: how speed is everything
Nobody has ever praised your dropdown animation. The best outcome an interface animation can achieve is that the user doesn&
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19
Aug
The best Google font pairings
Google Fonts is a library of over 1,500 typefaces, of which roughly 40 are worth your time, and the
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17
Aug
The project management books worth finishing
This is the third of the books lists, and it needs a boundary drawn immediately, because the leadership list already
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12
Aug
The web development books worth finishing
Technical books have a problem the leadership shelf doesn't: they expire. A leadership book from 1983 can still
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