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Team Transitions
We have presented our materials on Team Transitions to
hundreds of people in the Northeast. For a more in-depth view of how teams
form and re-form in response to their leadership, culture, and environment,
take a look at our new book which describes the inner workings of teams and
how to best use what people are already doing as they work together.
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Recommended Links
Usability
Designing
for usability
www.classicsys.com
Financial
Justification
www.computer.org/software/so2001/pdf/s1031.pdf
Requirements
Requirements
management
www.telelogic.com/products/doorsers
Decision Making
Real Win
Worth Analysis in depth
Wes
Hutchinson at University of Pennsylvania
Decision
making processes
www.kepner-tregoe.com
Analytical
Hierarchy Process software
www.expertchoice.com
Abstracts on
Cognitive Decision Making
http://www-bus.colorado.edu
Magazines
and Newsletters
The
e-Advisor is a free, monthly e-mail newsletter that will provide you
with succinct tips and pointers to practices to help you better manage
your projects and your business processes.
http://www.cbponline.com/e_advisor/
Projects at
Work is a print magazine converted to online and email. The free
subscriptions lead you to a wealth of knowledge and information about all
aspects of leading and managing projects.
http://www.projectsatwork.com/
Chief Project
Officer is a newly launched magazine that bills itself as independent (not
selling its own products) resource for project leaders. Some interesting
content and free registration.
http://chiefprojectofficer.com/index.php
Many things go
wrong during IT projects. For an interesting daily look at what has gone
wrong for others, take a look at this free Computerworld newsletter. It is
one of many listed at
http://www.cwrld.com/nl/sub.asp
Pair Programming
Other Interesting Links
onProject
collaborative project management demo
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Product
Development and Management Association
www.pdma.org
Online
backup and storage www.backup.com
Risk
management for corporations
www.icaew.co.uk/internalcontrol
Project
Management Institute www.pmi.org
Software
Engineering Institute www.sei.cmu.edu
Harvard
Bookstore www.harvard.com
Cited in our "Team Transitions" presentation and printed materials
Juan C. Nogueira and Tzvi Raz
In their article Structure and Flexibility of Project
Teams Under Turbulent Environments: An Application of Agent-Based Simulation
in the June 2006 issue of Project Management Journal (published by Project
Management Institute volume 37 number 2) the authors provide general and
specific support for the assertions of the superiority of Loose Structure
project teams models in producing valuable work. What they call Loose
Structure teams are similar to what we call Internetworked teams.
Margaret Wheatley
President Emerita of The Berkana Institute
Leadership and the New Science - Published in 1992
Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time published in 2005
Many papers on her web at
www.margaretwheatley.com
Likert & Likert
Renis Likert invented "strongly disagree" to "strongly
agree." survey scales and was Director of the Institute for Social Research
A Technique For The Measurement of Attitudes (1932)
Jane Gibson Likert was founder of the Center for the Education of Women
(1964)
Collaborator on Renis Likert’s books
Most referenced work: New Ways of Managing Conflict McGraw-Hill
1976
W. L. Gore
Overviews of WL Gore and their creative management
processes abound. Here are a few of the citations from the internet. Note
that their UK operation has 500 employees and effectively uses many
principles similar to those cited in "Team Transitions". While these are
great words, I really didn't take it at face value until several years ago
when I spent two hours on a plane talking to one of the Gore 'associates'
about how it really works. He had spent a few years at Gore and was a true
believer.
http://www.gore.com/en_xx/aboutus/culture/index.html
http://www.beysterinstitute.org/onlinemag/june98/briefcase.html
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12190-1501908,00.html
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20189-1021792,00.html
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,2020-18489-1503432-18489,00.html
http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2004/06/08/24027/Simply+the+best.htm
http://www.greatplacetowork.com/education/innovate/honoree-2003-wlgore.php
Business Without Bosses by
Charles C. Manz and Henry P. Sims Jr.
John Wiley & Sons Inc.,
Paperback, 1995
This book provides good ideas about Self-Managed teams
including several insightful cases, examples, and checklists. Unfortunately
since it was written before the wide availability of collaborative tools for
project and business teams, it does not include ideas about supporting
Resource-Networked teams with contemporary tools.
Planner Pad
If you use or are considering a paper planner, take a look
at Planner Pad via the link below. Especially if your work is project
oriented, this is a great paper system. It provides practical and pragmatic
focus on projects, tasks and calendar. Worth a look.
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MindManager
We use
MindManager from Mindjet software to facilitate mapping and visualizing at
many places in the project process including requirements, project design,
and project analysis. [More
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen ISBN 0142000280 How a project manager manages projects and
how they manage their personal work are radically different. This book is
about how to manage personal work. It is as close to a Gold Standard as I
have ever seen. Highly recommended.
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Re-Imagine! by Tom Peters ISBN 078949647X This book looks
at the future. In my opinion this is the best work I have seen from Peters
in years. [see
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The Rhythm of Business: The Key to Building and Running
Successful Companies by Jeffrey C. Shuman, and David Rottenberg
ISBN 0750699914. These folks have a better idea on how to think and act
effectively on person-to-person business relationships. Highly
recommended. [see
book details]
Touchstones for the New Millennium
by Peggy Morrison with William Goodwin ISBN 0965817059. Defines ground
rules for strong and productive team working relationships supported by
rich real-life examples. Summarizes the basics of Peggy's powerful
technical team turn-around consulting.
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book details]
Peopleware
by Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister ISBN 0932633439. This is a classic text
on productive projects and teams. If you lead product development, you
must read this book. Of particular note are chapter 11 entitled "The
Telephone" and chapter 7 on "The Furniture Police".
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book details]
Decision Making for Leaders
by Thomas L. Saaty ISBN 096203178X. Very powerful technical approach to
making complex decisions. [see
book details]
Project and Program Risk
Management by R. Max Wideman ISBN 1880410060. Very analytical text
on risk management. [see
book details]
Leadership is an Art
by Max DePree ISBN 0440503248. A little book that is unique among writing
on management. Learn about "pink ice" and other strange team behaviors.
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Pure Instinct
by Kathy Kolbe ISBN 0812920694. About team design by balancing cognitive
preferences. This book appears to be out of print, but can be bought used
at Amazon. There are also newer books and tools listed on her website at
www.kolbe.com
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book details]
It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the
Best Damn Ship in the Navy by D. Michael
Abrashoff, ISBN: 0446529117. While I have not reviewed this book, I heard
the author speak at a Fast Company Magazine's RealTime conference in
Orlando in 1999. His talk was great. I would recommend reading the article
from Fast Company as a preview to the book; it can be found at
www.fastcompany.com/online/23/grassroots.html
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book details]
Troubleshooting the Troubleshooting Course
by Robert F. Mager ISBN 0822493705. I had the good fortune to meet Bob
while I was leading Automation College at Honeywell Industrial Controls.
His books are full of clear thinking on what it takes to train adults. His
books are also entertaining and will fill your mind with new thoughts on
what you see every day. If you are involved in training and education,
grab your blunderbuss and meet Bob in Bugadoo.
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book details]
The Mythical Man-Month by Fredrick P.
Brooks Jr. ISBN 0201006502. One of the first classics in software
development. Originally published in 1975, its comments on teams and
leadership are timeless. While the first addition which is dated due to
many technology changes, it's still a good read. A second edition was
published in 1995. [see
book details]
Dynamics of Software Development by Jim
McCarthy ISBN 1556158238. An introspective view of the software
development process from Jim's perspective as Microsoft Visual C++ program
management team leader. Presents 54 "rules" for software development
teams.
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