If you’re hiring a PM, look for a Project Runner instead. If you have PMs, convince them to take up a project runner role.
If you choose to manage a project, its pretty safe. As the manager, you report. You report on whats happening, you chronicle the results, you are the middleman.
If you choose to run a project, on the other hand, you’re on the hook. Its an active engagement, bending the status quo to your will, ensuring that you ship. Running a project requires a level of commitment that’s absent from someone who is managing one.
Who would you rather hire, a manager or a runner?
via Seths Blog: The difference between running and managing a project.
Yes, I know you’re a master of the web, that you’ve visited every website written in English, that you’ve been going to SXSW for ten years, that you were one of the first bloggers, you used Foursquare before it was cool and you can code in HTML in your sleep. Yes, I know that you sit in the back of the room tweeting clever ripostes when speakers are up front failing on a panel and that you had a LOLcat published before they stopped being funny.
But what have you shipped?
What have you done with your connection skills that has been worthy of criticism, that moved the dial and that changed the world?
Go, do that.
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“Always be shipping.” – J. Gamblen
iPhone and Android platforms combined sold 25% of Smartphones worldwide in Q1 2010. Windows Mobile is now in 5th spot behind Android with 6.8% market share. Maybe the Kin One and Two will help WinMo’s share — then again, maybe not.
via Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Grew 17 Per Cent in First Quarter 2010.
We’re impatient bastards, all of us. A career is not made from one picture or one campaign, or even three or five. It’s not your first exhibition that gets you the bump you want to get, it’s your 10th or your 100th.
I can’t say for sure what “having arrived” is, but I know that part of it is staying on the long-ass curvy road for a good long while. Better love what you’re doing.
via One quality of “success” means being “at it” for years. | Chase Jarvis Blog.
I wish I had one of these while I was at my former employer…
Bring TIM: Meeting Cost Calculator – The Official Dilbert Store.
And there’s also an iPhone app.