Books I Wrote
Ken was very fortunate to write three leadership books, with one of them accidentally written and eventually used in the naming of his company.
Accidentally?
Way back in the great days of startups, Ken attended a major computer leadership conference and attended one workshop after another. Titles like “17 Ways to Slip a Schedule” and “The Time-Proven Way to Deliver Any Project On-Time” were just a few presented by consultants who had never actually “lived in the trenches.” So, he stormed into the conference management tent and told the hosts how dumb the workshops were. He came out “somehow” signed up to present at next year’s conference.
Oh no! Now what?
Back in Dallas, he looked at his software development team and asked, “How can I put on a workshop? All we have here is a bunch of software maniacs”? And that is how the whole software maniacs shtick took off. And then, unexplainably Ken convinced J. Wiley & Sons to publish his first book Managing Software Maniacs.
And that is how it all started!
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The cult classic software tech manager’s startup guide when the industry was the “Wild West” with no rules, just long work days and inspiration.
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After getting my PMP and learning how to adjust and iterate the agile (Scrum) way, this book was my attempt to “bridge that massive gap.”
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My wife slammed the phone down after a rough customer call and yelled, “I’m not God. I’m just a project manager!” What a great idea for a book.
Under development: The Art of Technical Project Management
After the COVID-19 pandemic, the landscape of classroom learning has dramatically changed and so must the way that courseware and tutorials are created. The Art of Technical Project Management is a blended learning course that consists of a “killer” textbook, videos, quizzes, and lots of useful PM aids available for download.