“Whatever [your project] is, you have the ability to turn it into a valuable and enjoyable game, gathering many unforgettable experiences.
Every project, however tiny, if given enough attention and peeled off worries, has the ability to bring inspiration and eagerness to do more, to create more.”
Source: Turn Your No Into Yes: 15 Yes-or-No Questions to Disentangle Your Project
“A boat without a captain is nothing more than a floating waiting room: unless someone grabs the rudder and starts the engine, it’s just going to drift along aimlessly with the current. A piece of software is just like that boat: if no one pilots it, you’re left with a group of engineers burning up valuable time, just sitting around waiting for something to happen (or worse, still writing code that you don’t need).”
Source: Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
“It’s not enough to know what we’re trying to do—we also have to know what it means to reach the finish line.
In other words, what exactly do we have to do before we can say we’re done?”
Source: The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life
“Elicitation is an art of extraction of information.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Brainstorming is to aim for alternatives.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Brainstorming is not about HOW; but How-To-Wow.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Tougher the project; Agiler the approach.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Agile; a little fragile; handle with care.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Here is the key point: Once you have determined how many projects you can support, and what mix of projects you need to support your strategy, similar projects must compete against other similar projects for budget and staff for the resources dedicated to that category of project. Let’s say that you have decided to allocate 20 percent of your available resources to positioning options. Any new candidate for getting resources that is a positioning option should compete for that 20 percent against all the other positioning projects. They shouldn’t compete against other kinds of options or against platform or enhancement launches. This ensures that you will pick only the very best positioning options for your portfolio. What’s more important, it gets you out of the constant tug-of-war between short-term and long-term projects. The strategic choice is how many of your resources you will put into each category. Then within each category, the very best projects should compete against one another for consideration.”
Source: The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Strategies for Continuously Creating Opportunity in an Age of Uncertainty
“Devising strategies to solve anticipated complexity of problems via strategic management and systemic approach is the heart of a good project design.”