Archive for January 23rd, 2009
Horstman’s Law of Project Management
Не могу не прорекламировать отличный подкаст: Manager tools. Наткнулся на него в выпуске PM Podcast.
Цитирую фрагмент (записал с подкаста и немного преобразовал устную речь в письменную):
An unusual way to think about this is that tasks are like trees and projects are groups of tasks. That all we are - the projects are just groups of tasks, so they are just like forests. Forest is just a name for a group of trees. Without trees there is no forest. The word forest is just abstraction designed to help us to talk about groups of trees. Without trees there would be no forest, but without forest (which is an abstraction) there still be trees. We are not saying you can’t save the hundreds of hours on a project by seeing the forest rather than the trees, but you don’t cut down the forest by looking at the forest even with the most efficient technology made to look at forest in the world. You cut down the forest one tree at a time. Tasks are more important than the management of those tasks. Work is more important than the management of work.