Project Management

Project Management Skills from someone smarter than me.

Chris Sells, mensa member, Windows coding hero and all around guru has posted some great tips for project managers (program managers for those in Microsoft). I wish all project managers would follow his advice. PM Skill #0: Know Your JobPM Skill #1: Communicate, Communicate, CommunicatePM Skill #2: Building ConsensusPM Skill #3: Getting Things DonePM Skill(…)

Visual Studio Team System Rocks!

Scoble reports that there are a whole bunch of videos on Visual Studio Team System at TeamStystemRocks.com. See everyone, Scoble can be right about some things. Keep doing what you do Rob. Now Playing: Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me)

Steve Ballmer on Channel 9

I’ve got to check the Channel 9 Video feed more often. Channel 9 posted a ten minute chat with MS head honcho Steve Ballmer. It’s an interesting video. The one thing that I found surprising was Ballmer’s energy. I always thought that his energy level was more of a sales pitch thing than anything else.(…)

An open source Visual Studio?

I saw this and I did a double take. It looks like that there is a team of developers that will be unifying the N-tools (NUnit, NAnt, etc) under one project called NTeam. It sounds like a good idea after the blogsphere blew up (see Rick LaPlante, Eric Sink, and Eric Bowen) one the Visual Studio Team(…)