I wanted to share a few things that I find have the greatest impact on my productivity (and help avoid headaches—I have to say that I hate headaches even more than I hate ironing).
1. Viewing schedules from the Project view threads to see which ones are blue (in progress and on schedule—Hooray!) and which ones [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 28, 2009
Bel’s Production Management Tuesday Tip: #1
May 28, 2009
Great Post on Underdogs
I just love this post from our friends over at 37Signals. Please read the post — it’s quick and great.
There are many things that I love about this post (and topic) and it leads to many thoughts for us here at Appingo. Here are some reasons why I love this post:
It is based on [...]
May 21, 2009
Fudge Days
This from Wikipedia….
CCPM aggregates the large amounts of safety time added to many subprojects in project buffers to protect due-date performance, and to avoid wasting this safety time through bad multitasking, student syndrome, Parkinson’s Law and poorly synchronised integration.
Critical chain project management uses buffer management instead of earned value management to assess the performance of [...]
May 20, 2009
Sssshhhh
Oh, It was a beautiful day. One of those first days of summer before it’s too hot, before the grass gets brown, before the South West wind brings humid gray skies.
A short ride brought us to a ‘Corporate’ conference room.
‘DO NOT CONNECT VENDOR LAPTOPS’
That’s what the sign said near the jack on the wall. ‘IT’ [...]
May 14, 2009
Publishing should forget sunk costs? Seth Godin post…
Seth Godin had a post on his blog this week that I think is an important concept for the publishing industry. To summarize, Seth talks about ignoring sunk costs when making decisions about the future. Investments you’ve made in the past are gone and should have no bearing on decisions you make about your future. [...]
May 13, 2009
Quote of the day re: Publisher’s value
Here is a very interesting quote from a blog post regarding where Publishers will derive their value in a digital world.
The Publishers’ Dilemma — Tobias Schirmer on publishing’s digital future:
[D]igitalization is not about a product moving from its analogue to a digital form. It is a revolution that changes everything. The old business models don’t work [...]
May 11, 2009
Publisher Fires Landlord!
A trade publisher fired her landlord today.
In a move to save jobs and re-invigorate a 50 year old publishing company, an Appingo customer fired the landlord, saved a job and set the staff up to work from home. One editor was ecstatic about NOT having to commute an hour and a half each way. “I [...]
May 11, 2009
Rogues in Publishing
We’re looking for a few good rogues. I the world of publishers who are everyday proving that the ‘Old Way’ doesn’t work, Appingo is looking for people who want a better way.
Skills, and talents, managers, authors, editors and proofreaders, taggers and compositors; all finding a better way to manage projects. All finding they can practice [...]
May 4, 2009
Appingo’s contribution to Earth Day…two weeks later
While our timing may leave a bit to be desired, our intention is pure! To be honest — we were going to write about how Appingo contributes to a good, healthy earth on Earth Day, but flat-out forgot. I wish we could say that we were to busy saving the Earth on Earth Day, but [...]
