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Schedule Games

  By Yaakov Ellis | May 9, 2005 - 7:20 | Articles
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Check out this the Schedule Games series from Johanna Rothman at Managing Product Development (found this via Daily Grind 617):

  1. Schedule Chicken
  2. 90% Done
  3. Bring Me a Rock
  4. Hope is Our Most Important Strategy
  5. Queen of Denial
  6. Sweep Under the Rug
  7. Schedule Dream Time or Happy Date
  8. Pants on Fire
  9. Schedule == Commitment
  10. We’ll Know where we are when we get There
  11. The Schedule Tool is always Right
  12. Acknowledgements

Lots of great advice here. Luckily I have not yet had the misfortune to fall into any of the described situations too seriously…but it’s good to know what to look out for.

The Code Project

  By Yaakov Ellis | May 6, 2005 - 16:09 | Articles, c#
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The Code Project is a site that is home to a large community (approaching 2 million members) of .Net Articles (and Web/Scripting, General Reading, ASP.net, C# and more). Article topics range from tutorials in specialized areas of web technologies to custom designed controls. The good news is that there are many very informative articles hosted on CodeProject, and lots of free code, controls and ideas. The only catch is that there is no apparent quality control other than the user-feedback rating section. So be sure to keep an open (and analytical) mind before adopting advice from some random article. That said, I have found lots of good stuff here.