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While having a look at Liquid Planner recently, I stubled across this article. The gang at LP outline strong reasons to try to finish one project before moving on to the next. Even ignoring the substantial time it takes to “context switch” to a new task, the benefit of single-tasking is that you get [...]

I recently finished reading “The One-Page Project Manager”, by Clark Addison Campbell. What Clarke offers is a credible way to report a project’s status in a readable way, to managers, stakeholders and to provide feedback to the people working on a project. The one-page summary he suggests is not ideal for me, but has provided some [...]

In my dream job, I would have a manager that takes care of how code is turned into money for me and is able to manage projects in a way that never results in “crunch time” or having to compromise. In practice, people who can manage programmers well are rare. You’re most likely either [...]

I recently picked up a copy of Mike Gunderloy’s book, “Coder To Developer”. The title grabbed me right away because it’s exactly what this site is about! Reading it in fragments of time between work and home commitments, I was actually excited to try things after reading each chapter. The bulk of the book is [...]