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Posted by andy@assembla.com Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:38:20 GMT

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Posted by andy@assembla.com Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:29:00 GMT

Should team task assignments be controlled by a project manager, or should each team member create and accept tasks? You can get a big increase in peformance if you know when to use each of these methods of organization.

Posted by andy@assembla.com Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:57:00 GMT

Pito Salas invited me to a “Geek Dinner”, which I attended tonight. It was organized by Pito and blogger Adam Green, and populated by RSS and blogging geeks. I pitched the Software Professional network and came away with some positives:

• Two different guys came up to me and said, essentially, that they manage multiple groups of unruly open source developers, and they will try our system. Mental note – a couple of guys asked about time tracking and billing. I got the same question at the Ruby Users Group meeting.

• I learned more from Dan Bricklin about the wiki/spreadsheet he has been working on. Once I started thinking about how it lives out in data space, and can pull data and catch data from other servers, I started thinking it will be big. Definitely worth adding as a tool. It will be useful for management reporting and for securities research.

• Adam Green said “my last company (Andover.net at the height of the craziness in 99) was sold to Sourceforge. How does this competeâ€?. I explained what we were doing and why I thought we would roll right over VA Software, and he agreed.

I ended up giving an impassioned speech about what a great business software suddenly is, with costs down, demand up, and innovation flourishing. Maybe that one beer wasn’t such a great idea on four hours of sleep. More on that later.