How to Handle Multiple Customers
Some time ago I wrote a blog post on how to do resource planning when you’re dealing with multiple small projects. It seems to be a tou...
Time Sheets: Squashed Between Jeff Sutherland and Joel Spolsky
Last week I got this message from Rebekah: Jurgen, I've been following your blog and really enjoy it. I work for a small web d...
How to Do Many Projects (Part 4): Resource Planning
In three earlier blog posts I talked about multi-functional teams, matrix management and maintenance. In my maintenance article I argued ...
How to Do Many Projects (Part 3): Maintenance
In two earlier blog posts I described how we have organized the software development efforts in our company. I wrote about cross-function...
How to Do Many Projects (Part 2): Matrix Management
In How to Do Many Projects (Part 1) I explained that it is good to have multi-functional teams, where each team includes a project manage...
How to Do Many Projects with Few People (Part 1)
Given the problem (most managers call it a 'challenge') of running many dozens of projects concurrently, with just a small number...
How to Handle Many Simultaneous Projects
Agile software development methods, like Scrum and Lean, tell you how to run your projects. But they all do that from a single-project pe...
Why Managing Small Projects is Harder
Some people think that managing small projects is easier than managing big projects. They are right, unless the economies of scale requir...
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