Mintzberg makes some scathing remarks about the Strategic Planning industry. A lot of it seems to come down that the planners are (A) taking the power away from managers and (B) it doesn’t work in practice. I’m wondering if a similar argument can’t be made about software project management.

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Top Consultant reports that management consultancy salaries have increased and
fee rates are firmer now than they have been for 3 years, and there is a bit more money to spend on salaries. All firms reported a shortage of good candidates, and those that gave October salary reviews awarded increases of around 5%, reflecting the [...]

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The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, a publications of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems, has devoted an entire issue to IT Outsourcing. Jens Dibbern, Time Goles, Rudy Hirschheim and Bandula Jayatilaka take over the entire issue for a journal-length review of everything that has been done.
One of the interesting [...]

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The previous discussion about Henry Mintzberg’s “Quiet Leadership” led me to read some of his newspaper articles. “Africa’s ‘Best Practices’” is from the Daily Times of Pakistan (March 9,2004), although it has been published elsewhere earlier. Mitzberg asks the important question: do we or even can we develop leaders?
Perhaps we don�t develop leaders so much [...]

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Jon pointed out “Managing Quietly” [Leader to Leader, 12 (Spring 1999): 24-30], one of the few articles by Henry Mintzberg available online. It talks about the fact that the loud, glossy CEOs who become darlings of the business press, do not in fact perform all that well. Quiet leaders, whom you never hear about, do [...]

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If people had any idea what real management leadership looked like, the idea of self-managed teams wouldn’t be thought of as anything so radical.

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Since I’m having a tough time with my case study, I’ll try putting down some things that I think are true about organization change in general.
Forrest’s Postulates on Organizational Change

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McDermott, Robert (1999). “Learning Across Teams: The Role of Communities of Practice in Team Organizations“. Knowledge Management Review, May/June 1999.
The article is available online in at leat a couple of formats, but the easiest to get is from Community Intelligence Labs’ Knowledge Garden.
McDermott’s old article is an excellent one for people who don’t yet understand [...]

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