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On Monday I'll be grid blogging on the subject of the "brand". Grid blogging is an experiment in tapping the knowledge across the web. Bloggers will post on the same subject on the same day. We'll also link to each other. And we'll offer a means for finding the postings via search engines. Just search on "[grid::brand]". Include the square brackets in your search. You might not find much early in the day. It might take a while for search engines to index new postings. I'll be posting here and at www.coachblog.com.

Late last week I received two autographed copies of David J Anderson's book, Agile Management for Software Engineering. (I actually received three copies. One was personalized. Thank you David.) I'll be offering these as premiums for publishing your Project e-Tip proposals. I haven't commented on David's book for quite some time. Don't be thrown off by the title. He could have titled it Agile Management for Knowledge Work and it would have been as good a fit. Anyone doing engineering, architecture, or design of any type will enjoy the book. We will be interviewing David in our Project Leadership teleconference series in the spring.

I updated the articles page of this weblog. (Click on the link in the horizontal navigation above, or click Hal's Articles.) The page now includes my latest article for the Zweig Letter, Project Management: Claptrap or Messy Work. There's been numerous new definitions of project management in the last year or so. I find it to be just more of the same. So, not being one to hold my views to myself, I offered up a 20 year-old perspective along with a set of 6 issues that continue to challenge PMs and a set of 5 actions to set the stage for messy work. Hope you enjoy. Please leave me your comments.

Continue to watch these pages for the announcement of the teleconference series with authors. I will be posting to give my email (Bloglet) subscribers a first chance at signing up. This first conference will hold just 100 callers. So sign-up for email delivery today to get your early announcement. Look in the left-hand column. And then tell your friends! We will be offering a sign-up page for each of the featured authors. Just to whet you appetite, we've got the godfather of the lean movement scheduled for March. Should be fantastic!