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•  On the Side

  • Construction Software Selection Checklist
    08/23/2008
    Houston Neal offers a high-level feature comparison checklist for beginning a software evaluation.
  • Wisdom from Professor Rao
    08/22/2008
    "Smart organizations make difficult things simple," from Bob Sutton's Work Matters.
  • Think Visual
    07/20/2008
    Check out Dave Gray | info, a new website giving attention to ways of meaning, thinking and working by the founder of XPLANE and chief blogger at Communication Nation.
  • Who Knows Engineers?
    07/14/2008
    

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

  • Comparing Lean and Agile
    06/29/2008
    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
    06/24/2008
    

    Glen makes two big claims:

    1. 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
    2. 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
    05/16/2008
    

    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
    01/11/2008
    

    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.

 Now Reading

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  The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation by Matthew E. May

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  Micromessaging: Why Great Leadership is Beyond Words by Stephen Young

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  On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt

 Planned Books

• The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations by Dietrich Dorner
• Essentials of Cost Management by Catherine Stenzel

 Recent Books

• The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin
• Toyota Talent by Jeffrey Liker
• Product Development for the Lean Enterprise: Why Toyota\’s System Is Four Times More Productive and How You Can Implement It by Michael N. Kennedy
• Surprise! Now You’re a Software Project Manager by Bas de Baar
• Small Change by Lawrence Terkel

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