Skills

What I am learning, practising and getting better at.

The kickoff call is the whole project

Most projects go wrong in the first hour, not the last week. Here is the agenda I use to make the kickoff do real work.

Ranges, not numbers. Assumptions, not promises. How to quote unfamiliar work without gambling the margin.

The unglamorous case for writing things down

Documentation is not bureaucracy. It is the only defence against a project that depends on one person remembering.