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In honor of my arrival in Mountain View, the weather has turned ridiculously rainy today. I updated my blog's header image to reflect the view from my office today. For those of you keeping track, I'm living in Mountain View, CA , home of, among other
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Regular readers * of this blog will know that I have a thing for definitions of program management (see mine , Chris Pratley's , and Steven Sinofsky's ). The Exchange team recently put up a recruiting site, called ExchangeYourCareer.com . On it, they
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Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side -- because it's well-fertilized with bullsh*t. or, for those with a more intellectual bent: Caveat Emptor . [dedicated to various colleagues who are changing or have changed jobs recently :-)]
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While back at my mother's house this past week, I found my old collection of PC/Computing magazines, which I used to buy monthly from a local store (we didn't get subscriptions in Trinidad). One of the things I found was the January 1992 edition, which
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Office head honcho Steven Sinofsky posted last week about Program Management. Whew -- and I thought my post was long. Related to a discussion I had in SF last week with some colleagues, here's his list of some of the qualities that make a great PM: Strong
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An oldie but a goodie: http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/archive/2004/02/09/70474.aspx The best bits (in one paragraph, but split out for emphasis - bold is mine): [...] one way to describe PMs is that they not only "pick up and run with the ball, they
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Lots of changes in my work life in the past year months. About 10 months ago, I joined the IE team to work on IE features. It was pretty similar to what I was doing back in Networking. However, back in January, I started the long progression of moving
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