{"id":685,"date":"2012-04-20T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T00:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/?p=685"},"modified":"2012-05-08T16:36:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T04:36:41","slug":"making-things-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/2012\/04\/20\/making-things-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Things Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0596517718\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thunderguycom-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0596517718\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/0596517718.01.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Making Things Happen\" width=\"381\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/0596517718.01.jpg 381w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/0596517718.01-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thunderguycom-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0596517718\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scott Berkun offers a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottberkun.com\/blog\/2012\/how-to-make-things-happen\/\">excerpt<\/a> from his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0596517718\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thunderguycom-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0596517718\">Making Things Happen<\/a>. He views project management as basically managing priorities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Everything can be represented in an ordered list. Most of the work of project management is correctly prioritizing things and leading the team in carrying them out.<\/li>\n<li>The three most basic ordered lists are: project goals (vision), list of features, and list of work items. They should always be in sync with each other. Each work item contributes to a feature, and each feature contributes to a goal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And he has some excellent nuggets on management too:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a bright yellow line between priority 1 work and everything else.<\/li>\n<li>Things happen when you say no. If you can\u2019t say no, you effectively have no priorities.<\/li>\n<li>The PM has to keep the team honest and keep them close to reality.<\/li>\n<li>Knowing the critical path in engineering and team processes enables efficiency.<\/li>\n<li>You must be both relentless and savvy to make things happen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Go and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottberkun.com\/blog\/2012\/how-to-make-things-happen\/\">read it now<\/a> and then send the link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pointy-haired_Boss\">pointy-haired boss<\/a> in your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Berkun offers a great excerpt from his book Making Things Happen. He views project management as basically managing priorities: Everything can be represented in an ordered list. Most of the work of project management is correctly prioritizing things and leading the team in carrying them out. The three most basic ordered lists are: project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,14],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-books","tag-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}