POPTech in beautiful Camden Maine
October 20, 2005 Space Travel as Inspiration and Vision at POPTech Peter Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation which recently awarded a $10,000,000 prize for private spaceflight. Peter’s speech reminds me of how the Apollo space program inspired a generation of young people to pursue careers in science and engineering. […]
Outsourcing as Social Transformation
October 4, 2005 One of the subjects in Optimal Friction (the book), will be about relationship management, with the notion that healthy work relationships bring about better outcomes – not only on projects, but also between people, teams, groups, and companies. If you believe the adage, “Work is the place where we play out the […]
“Agile Metrics” at SD Best Practices Conference – Boston
September 29, 2005 Just returned from Boston where Joshua Kerievsky and I gave a talk entitled “Agile Metrics: Keeping Deadlines from Killing Your Projects and Ruining Your Life.” A most lively reaction came from the audience of 100+ attendees, especially when I commented that “Agile Metrics” seemed an odd oxymoron, akin to terms like “Homeland […]
