--- title: "Project Management (Blog category)" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/category/project-management.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/category/project-management" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Roy Osherove: author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership. Consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership, Co-Ops and continuous delivery, plus 20 years of blog posts." usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Project Management (Blog category) Roy Osherove: author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership. Consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership, Co-Ops and continuous delivery, plus 20 years of blog posts. HTML: https://osherove.com/blog/category/project-management · 13 linked entries (each is plain Markdown) · Site index: [llms.txt](https://osherove.com/llms.txt) - [I screwed up with a client. Here's what I've learned.](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/12/6/i-screwed-up-with-a-client-heres-what-ive-learned.md) (2006-12-06): Several days ago I finished a very angry phone call from one of my clients. They were letting me know how disappointed they were in me for letting them down, and how I just cost them a whole bunch of money and time for… - [Nice article on ordering code construction tasks by Jeremy Miller](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/26/nice-article-on-ordering-code-construction-tasks-by-jeremy-m.md) (2005-11-26): Jeremy Miller has some sound advice and an interesting read on the order of code construction (a nice "Where should I start building my project, and how do I continue to implement the various pieces of the… - [Father of Rational Unified Process Goes to Redmond](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/24/father-of-rational-unified-process-goes-to-redmond.md) (2005-11-24): This is pretty big. "Microsoft has tapped Ivar Jacobson, known as one of the fathers of the popular Rational Unified Process (RUP), to lead an effort to deliver a lightweight unified process to the Microsoft Solutions… - [QA Podcast: The Journey From Business Needs to Test and User Acceptance](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/22/qa-podcast-the-journey-from-business-needs-to-test-and-user.md) (2005-11-22): Got this in the emails, and it sounds itneresting: "Hi Roy, Just a quick note to say that I thought you might be interested in this recent podcast we completed, entitled "The Journey From Business Needs to Test and User… - [What does an Agile work environment look like? Here's one variation](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/4/15/what-does-an-agile-work-environment-look-like-heres-one-vari.md) (2005-04-15): This is a nice overview and actual pictures from a team room environment working with XP. Check it out at: An XP Team Room " Many newcomers to Extreme Programming wonder what a team room looks like. (For those… - [Employing TDD and unit testing with Waterfall methodologies](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/2/21/employing-tdd-and-unit-testing-with-waterfall-methodologies.md) (2005-02-21): One of the things I've encountered lately is large organizations (1000's of developers) trying to get "Agile" while still trying to retain some sort of sanity in the ranks. I do believe that such moves should be made… - [The Quality Pledge](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/23/the-quality-pledge.md) (2005-01-23): "I just received this in email: Pledge Our company is completely and absolutely committed to quality. * * Except on time-critical projects and during adverse cash-flow situations. When else would you need to be… - [About architecture and astronauts](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/23/about-architecture-and-astronauts.md) (2005-01-23): I really like what Joel writes about Architecture Astronauts (thanks for sending, Alex K.!). Sometimes it does feel that way. "When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers… - [My interview with Johanna Rothman goes live on ITConversations.Com](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/29/my-interview-with-johanna-rothman-goes-live-on-itconversatio.md) (2004-12-29): Guest host Roy Osherove speaks with Johanna about everyday problems in project management, software delivery and the hiring of technical people. They discuss interviewing strategies, and some bad examples of… - [Chatting with Johanna Rothman](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/8/chatting-with-johanna-rothman.md) (2004-12-08): I just finished a wonderful meeting with non other than Johanna Rothman , one of my favorite blog authors, who just happens to be in Israel this week. We talked for about two hours on topics relating to project… - [Great Coders Deserve Great Managers](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/9/3/great-coders-deserve-great-managers.md) (2004-09-03): I totally agree with Johanna on this one : Great coders do need great managers. I know I've often wanted demended of my workplace to invest in me just as much as I invest in my work. There are several points:… - [It's healthy to be scared of new projects](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/6/17/its-healthy-to-be-scared-of-new-projects.md) (2004-06-17): I think it's healthy to be afraid of new projects. Really. Whenever I get a new assignment, when I just get the first sentences of the project description, and I don't know how I'm going to implement it yet, I get those… - [Communicating Project Progress with a white board](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/6/17/communicating-project-progress-with-a-white-board.md) (2004-06-17): One of the things most notable about XP that I really like is the notion of pure communication through the simplest things. For example - the whiteboard. In an XP project - the whiteboard is your biggest friend. It's… --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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