Toronto Project Manager – Paul Henman CSM

Jeremy D. Miller says “Call me a Utopian, but I want my teams flat and my team members broad” – then call me one too. (more…)

Mitch Wagner, over at InformationWeek.com, says that the size of your email signature is inversely proportional to your importance, i.e. “If you’re a billionaire, you write your e-mail entirely in lower-case and sign it with the one-syllable nickname you had in prep school”.

I still go by the old-fashioned email “rules”, that your signature should be no more than three lines, each of 72 characters max. but then I also believe “styled text” (fancy fonts, colours, backgrounds etc.) have no place in email (professional or otherwise), and that anything bigger than 2Mb shouldn’t just be attached to your empty email and then fired off to everyone on your mailing list. (more…)

Some good quotes I spotted over at CodeBetter.com:

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm

- Winston Churchill

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure

- Abraham Lincoln

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

- Colin Powell

I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

Hofstadter’s Law states that:

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s law.

There’s not much info on their website yet, but put the date in your calendar: Agile2008 is in Toronto, August 4th to 8th.