Project management. The variables are budget, schedule, and scope. You can fix only two of those variables at a time. If you have a fixed cost and timeline, you cannot know how much you can accomplish. If you know what to do and how much you can spend, you won't know how long it will take. If you have a schedule and a well-defined task, you will not know how much it will cost. In desktops, there's performance, quality, and price. You can only pick two. In laptops, there's performance, battery life, and price. Again, you can only pick two. Every engineering project has to choose between the two of three: how fast you can get it down, how cheaply you can do it, and how good the quality of the object is. Managers use Project/program management Agile tools like Trello and Jira The system is ALWAYS more complicated than it looks, and you can blame great UX for that Dev Styles - Waterfall - Agile - Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die - [Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22969533) - [Moving On From Agile Engineering | Built In](https://builtin.com/software-engineering-perspectives/lean-agile-methodology-software-engineering) - What is Agile software development? Here are the basic principles. (7 minute read) [What is Agile and How You Can Become an Epic Storyteller](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-agile-and-how-youcan-become-an-epic-storyteller/) - [To DL]Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship - [research other styles?] Project Managmeent Triangle: - Cost - how affordable the item is - Time - how fast the customer can receive the product - Quality - how reliable, effective, and great the product is - High-quality of all three is impossible, so professionals have to choose two they prefer to provide It's better to be an octopus than a fish. If an octopus loses a tentacle to a predator, the octopus will survive with seven tentacles left to fend for itself, and perhaps a few lessons learned that will enable it to avoid another such attack. If a fish loses a fin - or worse, its tail it's unlikely to fare as well and its survival will be questionable. So use the Octopus Business Model. Create non-cross-collateralized sections and/or businesses - which means that the cost of running a section of your business, and the potential profit of that business, should be self-contained, and not "cross over" to the other businesses. In any dynamic system, the initial conditions have a huge influence over what happens. A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing. [Fast Good Cheap](http://fastgood.cheap/) pick any two ... goals - purposes you want strategies - big paths to those goals tactics - specific primitives of strategies techniques - specific primitives of tactics # articles ## product management [Product Management Exercises: Master Your Product Manager Interview Skills](https://www.productmanagementexercises.com/) # guides ## certification_project+ [Project+ Practice Questions | Sample Questions | Training | CompTIA](https://www.comptia.org/training/resources/practice-tests/project-practice-questions) ## product management [GitHub - dend/awesome-product-management: A curated list of awesome resources for product/program managers to learn and grow.](https://github.com/dend/awesome-product-management) [GitHub - rajavijayach/awesome-product-management: A collection of awesome things regarding Product Management](https://github.com/rajavijayach/awesome-product-management) [GitHub - leonard-henriquez/product-management-resources: A guide to become APM right after college](https://github.com/leonard-henriquez/product-management-resources) [GitHub - bjpcjp/awesome-product-management: A list of product management resources, curated from 10 years of bookmarks.](https://github.com/bjpcjp/awesome-product-management) [GitHub - ProductHired/open-product-management: A curated list of product management advice for technical people.](https://github.com/ProductHired/open-product-management) ## project flow [What Does a Logistician Do? Overview and Key Skills | Indeed.com](https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/what-is-a-logistician) [Use Critical Path Method (CPM) for Project Management [2023] • Asana](https://asana.com/resources/critical-path-method) [Design-build - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%E2%80%93build) [A prank cursor resulted in an employee being fired before they started (2020) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31727457) [The prank cursor that resulted in an employee being fired before they even started - The Old New Thing](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20201110-00/?p=104434) - THIS WAS BAD MGMT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE ## project management [RICE Scoring Model | Prioritization Method Overview](https://www.productplan.com/glossary/rice-scoring-model/) [RICE score: A prioritization framework for estimating value](https://roadmunk.com/guides/rice-score-prioritization-framework-product-management/) [GitHub - brianjking/awesome-project-management: One of those awesome things.](https://github.com/brianjking/awesome-project-management) [GitHub - gdcmarinho/awesome-project: A curated list of awesome project development links](https://github.com/gdcmarinho/awesome-project) [Work Management Tools - b3n.org](https://b3n.org/work-management-tools) [Eli5: Can someone tell me what an ERP company generally does ? Without explaining the acronym. Seems big business these days and I hear about them all the time but still generally confused. : explainlikeimfive](https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/12p1gnv/eli5_can_someone_tell_me_what_an_erp_company/) [Defensive tactics from the modern history of urban warfare | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30480307) [Defending the City: An Overview of Defensive Tactics from the Modern History of Urban Warfare - Modern War Institute](https://mwi.westpoint.edu/defending-the-city-an-overview-of-defensive-tactics-from-the-modern-history-of-urban-warfare/) [GitHub - Code-and-Coffee-YVR/how-to-organize: What we do, and how we do it](https://github.com/Code-and-Coffee-YVR/how-to-organize) [Product Manager Guides | PM Starter Pack](https://pmstarterpack.com/) ## testing [Running a Successful Pilot Program - Step-By-Step Guide - Device Magic](https://www.devicemagic.com/blog/step-by-step-guide-to-running-a-pilot-program)