Management Is The Art of Choosing What Not To Do

From Rands in Repose: "... management is the art of choosing what not to do ..."

If you want to know more about management told in a way an engineer can understand, consider Rands' book "Managing Humans".

Link: "Karl Fogel explains how to herd cats"

See this post in Paul Harrison's blog.

It basically explains the biggest mistakes in leading an Open Source Software (OSS) project.

Five Easy Ways to Fail

It's been said over and over again and now, once more: Five Easy Ways to Fail lists five simple ways to make sure a project will fail:

• Hire without brains
• Sloppy schedules
• Demand reality matches your deadlines
• Spread tasks evenly
• Work as many hours as you can

Another insight by Joel Spolsky