"For Best Results, Forget the Bonus" by Alfie Kohn, author of "Punished by Rewards". An interesting and rather valid looking take on how rewards just lower the bar for performance. Very unconventional thinking. I need to read his book and see if things like across-the-board rewards (offsites, all-hands bonuses, etc) count as well.
posted by Strata Chalup at 11:39 AM
CRC Cards This interesting approach to software design looks suspiciously like an undocumented approach to systems integration called "Taskflow Diagrams" that has been developed by yours truly over the past several years. It is also a Design Pattern on the main C2 Wiki.
Don't know what a Wiki is? Heh. Have fun, they're great. "Wiki wiki" is Hawaiian for "quick". Wikis are a quick collaboration environment based on forms-driven user-editable web pages. They're also something of a way of life for some system development cultures. They don't seem to have caught on heavily in the project management or systems administration worlds yet, but maybe we can fix that. :-)
posted by Strata Chalup at 8:46 PM
ProjectZone describes itself as "a community of technology project leaders discovering, learning, inventing, and teaching each other better ways to lead and manage teams and projects." I'll buy that. Very rich and deep site, highly useful.
Another similar site is the
New Grange Center for Project Management. Their online library is extremely impressive and useful.
posted by Strata Chalup at 8:33 PM
What's really scary is how many people I talk to who think that these things are not really issues, usually "because that's so improbable" and "companies aren't going to do that", and are then surprised when I point them to websites and news stories.
The Top 10 Privacy Stories of 2000
Workplace Surveillance is the Top Privacy Story of 2000 Other Top Stories include Medical Privacy, Carnivore and DoubleClick
posted by Strata Chalup at 12:06 PM 