Zweig Letter Articles Available

October 20th, 2003 by Hal

My first Zweig Letter article, Strangers, Friends, and Partners, is now available on this site. I've added a page to this website for listing articles with summaries. Look for the Articles link in the navigation bar above. I've posted other articles along with a place-holder for the article published today in the Zweig Letter, Head-Banging in the A/E Industry. You can read the summary until I publish the full article here on November 1.

So what is the Zweig Letter? It's the weekly newsletter from Zweig White, "…the largest, most diverse organization devoted exclusively to serving the needs of design and construction firms." View a sample issue.

The Zweig Letter

What Problem with Project-Driven Businesses?

John L. Henshaw Defends OSHA

This ‘n That

Multi-Task Your Way to Un-Profitability

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Construction Software Selection Checklist
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Wisdom from Professor Rao
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"Smart organizations make difficult things simple," from Bob Sutton's Work Matters.

Think Visual
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Who Knows Engineers?
07/14/2008

Curious blog We Know Engineers on A/E firms. Worth checking out.

Comparing Lean and Agile
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Scott Reynolds writing at Tales from the SharpSide, "Lean forces you into a culture of quality. Agile is about interactions and people, and Lean is very much concerned with tools and processes." Read more about Lean vs. Agile...

Glen Alleman's Models of PM Success
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Glen makes two big claims:

If you don't have a credible plan and schedule, with a handle on the cost all the "soft" skills won't get you back on track
If you don't have a definitive description of what "done" looks like, so the "soft skills" class won't make those appear

Have a look at his comprehensive stand on organizing and managing projects.

Read Robert Sutton's Blog
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Learn from a Stanford d.School prof. Robert Sutton has a great weblog Work Matters and he's the author of The Knowing-Doing Gap and The No Assholes Rule.

Humility Makes Toyota Different
02/20/2008

From the Lean Insider: Speaking to Toyota employees at the Detroit Auto Show President Watanabe asked that they take responsibility for recent quality problems.

"I do not regard the problem as something that suppliers are responsible for. We must work together so that we are fully aware of where suppliers are."

Bernstein closes saying, "At Toyota, they know that doing the best job of serving the customer is what makes the company profitable."

Lean Project Management
02/19/2008

Brad Appleton reviewed Lean Project Management, by L Leach concluding, "I found Lean Project Management to be a fairly quick read providing a good overview of some TOC and CCPM fundamentals and how they align with Lean thinking."

Claude Emond, Guest Blogger
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I'm glad to have Claude posting at RPM. It was Claude who gave name to these wonder filled times -- the project age. Please welcome him with your comments.

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