All tagged Jim McGee
“When Your Team’s Path Forward Isn’t Clear, Carve It” by Adam Kahane takes the idea of “carving” a solution through its paces. I like this way of framing the approach, even if the blog post doesn’t provide specifics (leave that for his book).
My long-time blogging friend, Jim McGee, will be teaching a course on project management and has some thoughts on how to enhance the course this time around. His main question in Design projects before worrying about managing them is "We would do a better job at managing projects if we spent more time designing them first"?
David Gurteen posted a draft list of attributes of an effective knowledge worker. There are some interesting thoughts here, as well as comments from Jim McGee and others that round out the idea.
Jim McGee tells us that "Deliverables [are] the fundamental secret to improving knowledge work." I see a connection to Theory of Constraints in Jim's thinking.
Bill Ives has done his first podcast with the Otter Group's Learning2.0 podcast series. His topic is Blogs as Personal Knowledge Management, and he does a nice job of summarizing in six minutes what blogs are and how Bill (and others) use blogs as their "backup brain."
Jim McGee and I are going to host a session on KM / Collaboration during BlawgThink 2005, here in Chicago.
Jim McGee 's latest piece in Enterprise Systems is "Building Your Knowledge Workshop." Given Jim's ongoing analogy of knowledge work as craft work, it only makes sense to think about the craft person's workshop.
People are talking about status reports and the new world of work. Writing, in general, is one of those hidden arts. Done well, people thrive. Done poorly, no one knows why people starve.