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Collaborative Computing: Changing How We Work, Changing How Everyone Works

Collaborating on work across distances has always been difficult. We fly groups together to work temporarily as a single team on a critical project issue. We have regularly scheduled conference calls; we have videoconferencing rooms. We rely deeply on e-mail to stay in step. We try to build single Web-based repositories of project knowledge that are accessible throughout an organization. It has all been a struggle. Distance is misunderstanding. Distance is wrong interfaces. Distance is friction. But now we are witnessing the positive effects of distance beginning to shrink. The next generation of collaboration tools is here, or at least the early arrivals are here. Broadband access is the underlying technology for all these tools. The videoconference room is dead, and collaboration is moving out of meetings and into its most useful place: the daily lives of project members.
April 30, 2004 | Authored By: Tim Lister, Tom DeMarco, Ken Orr, Lynne Ellyn, Christine Davis

Leading the Chosen People Out of the Office

This article is a compilation of contributions from the Guest Editor’s colleagues at the Atlantic Systems Guild, who believe that the work modes of the pandemic years may have signaled a change in the way we need to work from now on. The article is organized into six potential patterns, from reinvention of the office, the value of group work, and challenges of remote work to work-life-balance, team cohesion difficulties, and the potential to move to an entirely virtual model.
March 18, 2022 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco, Peter Hruschka, Tim Lister, James Robertson, Suzanne Robertson

The Workplace Culture You Want

Culture is defined by the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular social group. Workplace culture is the environment that you create for your employees. This includes the mix of organizational leadership, values, traditions, beliefs, interactions, behaviors, and attitudes that contribute to the emotional and relational environment of the workplace. The authors define six drivers that determine the culture of a workplace and provide insight on how these drivers interact to create an environment that is either enabling and energizing or toxic and debilitating, with an extended discussion of the perceived value of people and teams.
April 8, 2020 | Authored By: Steve McMenamin, Tom DeMarco, Peter Hruschka, Tim Lister, James Robertson, Suzanne Robertson

Managing Differences: The Critical 21st-Century Management Skill, 2nd Edition (Executive Summary)

The critical 20th-century management skill -- making things and people fit into systems that execute efficiently -- will inevitably be transcended by a different 21st-century critical management skill: creating the conditions in which people of widely varying backgrounds, behaviors, and inclinations can maximize their particular contributions to economic value. This is certainly happening in most firms in developed economies, yet most managers (especially IT managers) have not yet come to grips with it.
September 1, 2015 | Authored By: Robert Austin, Tom DeMarco, Lynne Ellyn, Mark Seiden, Lou Mazzucchelli, Ronald Blitstein, Tim Lister

Managing Differences: The Critical 21st-Century Management Skill, 2nd Edition

The critical 20th-century management skill — making things and people fit into systems that execute efficiently — will inevitably be transcended by a different 21st-century critical management skill: creating the conditions in which people of widely varying backgrounds, behaviors, and inclinations can maximize their particular contributions to economic value. This is certainly happening in most firms in developed economies, yet most managers (especially IT managers) have not yet come to grips with it. With this Executive Report, we move away from our usual format and revisit an "ahead of the curve" Council Opinion by the Cutter Business Technology Council, which highlights what has now become a major corporate movement.
September 1, 2015 | Authored By: Robert Austin, Lynne Ellyn, Tom DeMarco, Mark Seiden, Lou Mazzucchelli, Ronald Blitstein, Tim Lister

Risk Management is Project Management for Adults

In this on-demand webinar you'll learn shy risk management for software is entirely different from financial risk management.; the core process to do risk management at the project level and above; why you can never completely avoid or transfer risk in software development; and how to mitigate or contain risks.
December 13, 2005

Risk Management is Project Management for Adults Webinar

In this on-demand webinar you'll learn shy risk management for software is entirely different from financial risk management.; the core process to do risk management at the project level and above; why you can never completely avoid or transfer risk in software development; and how to mitigate or contain risks.
December 13, 2005 | Authored By: Tim Lister
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