In this cast we describe Horstman’s Law of Project Management: Who Does What By When.

We’ve talked and joked about it many times, and this cast will put to rest the details of Horstman’s Law of Project Management (HLPM). Mark came up with it several years ago, to help a group of young managers get over their fear of working on fairly complex software development projects. It was actually born over a dinner at Mexican restaurant in Dallas!

The concept is simple: all projects are simply tasks, done by people, within certain time frames. Despite all protestations to the contrary, no matter how complex the project, they all boil down to who is responsible for doing something, what they’re responsible for, and when they have to have it done by. Complex tools can be helpful, but only on really large projects (and almost nobody looks at them anyway ).

Keep it simple with HLPM. Here’s how.

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Horstman’s Law of Project Management - Part 1

This cast explains an important career search question, and how to answer it: “What do you want to do, and where do you want to do it?”
You’re going to be asked this question, and you have to know how to answer it, without limiting yourself. It’s one of those fleeting career moments whose outcome is defined likely BEFORE the moment arrives.

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Career Tools Cast #3: What Do You Want To Do?

In this cast we debunk the myth that change briefings are about logic, and suggest a different path: persuading individual team members.

You’re going to be asked to lead, or at least brief on, change efforts that your organization is engaged in. Regardless of whether it’s your idea or someone else’s, you don’t win people’s energy to your cause by showing how right you are. You win their support by showing them why this plan works for THEM.

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Change Briefings Preparation Rule #1: Individuals, Not Arguments

This cast discusses a way to harvest our work on annual reviews for use during layoff discussions.

Nobody likes preparing annual reviews. Even those of us who are good at it know that far too often they sit on someone’s desk, unused. But during a downturn, Annual reviews are an important piece of raw material that helps effective managers deal with a Steel Cage Death Match meeting.

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Harvesting Annual Reviews

This cast makes the case for the most important thing you do at the beginning of your professional life: get good grades in College/University.
 
This is the first in a series of what surely will be many Career Tools casts about college and university as preparation for one’s professional adult life. As with so many other things in one’s career, too often we find out what’s important AFTER we can do anything about it. And if you’ve graduated, think about having your children listen. ;‐)

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Career Tools Cast #2: The First Rule of Higher Education - Get Good Grades