Table of Contents

Those who read this blog know that I'm working on a book, what I've called a field handboook for project leaders. For the last six months I've been writing the book one blog posting at a time. I'm about half way done, with over 70 pages and more than 30,000 words written so far. At this rate, I should be done by the end of the year.

I was telling someone that my blog was a book. But a book should be read from beginning to end, and blogs tend to be organized in reverse chronological order (and finding the first post can take more than a few clicks). So I thought it might be useful to publish a table of contents, with links to the posts. If nothing else, it's much easier to scan. If this works out, I'll see if I can embed the table of contents right into the masthead.

OK, here's the title page and table of contents of the book...

Table of Contents

• Preface: A field handbook for engineering project leaders
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• Part I: Philosophy: Essays on Leadership
1. Big Fish, Big Ponds, and Snowshoe Hares
2. All Leadership is Tactical
3. The Gold Axiom of Learning Leadership
4. Methodologies, Processes and the Silver Bullet
5. Plagues, Peoples and Process Change
6. GOST In The Machine
7. Top-Down or Bottom-Up
8. Deciding not to Decide is not Deciding
9. YARPUI: You Are Responsible for the Position You Are In
10. Breaking the Fourth Wall
11. Everything I Needed to Know About Project Planning I Learned from My Little League Coach
12. Anticipate the Unanticipated
13. Be Careful What You Measure, It Might Improve
14. When Good Enough Is Good Enough
15. Old Dogs and New Tricks
16. Herding Cats
17. Beekeeper, Shepherd and Cowboy
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• Part II: The Art of Software Project Leadership
1. Sun Tzu and the Art of Software Project Leadership
2. Know Your Enemy
• Leadership Roles and Enemies
3. Know Yourself
4. Know What You're Doing
• Know what you're doing (Part I)
• Know what you're doing (Part II)
• Know what you're doing (Part III)
• Plan Analysis: Risks and Dependencies
• Plan Analysis: Smart Deliverables
• Plan Analysis: CoCoMo
• Plan Analysis: Ideas, Inspection and Intuition
5. Know What's Going On
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• Part III: Science: The Tools of Project Leadership
  
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• About the author

Posted at 01:27PM May 24, 2007 by Robert Hueston in Sun  |