Team Management Resources
Team management can be tough, but it can also be extremely rewarding. These books and articles tell you how avoid the classic pitfalls of team management and how to become a superstar at team building and supervision.
Are You Unintentionally Micromanaging Your Team?
A useful article on the signs you may be micromanaging - annoying, bugging, driving crazy - your project team.
Big Dog's Leadership Page
This site has a free set of articles on leadership. They also offer links to readings on leadership and other sites focused on leadership and team management issues.
The Five Dumbest Things a Project Manager Can Say: Words that Come Back to Haunt Us
PM Talk Newsletter,
Somewhat tongue in cheek but very useful article on common problems Project Managers face in working with teams and stakeholders
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (2nd ed.)
Roger Fisher and William Ury, the Harvard Negotiation Project, Penguin, 1991
This book provides a straightforward, universally applicable method for negotiating
personal and professional disputes without getting taken and without getting
frustrated.
Learning to Play Well Together
Useful tips on how to identify and resolve personality conflicts between team members.
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister, 2nd Edition, 1999
One of the classics in management literature: easy to read and packaged into
handy bite-sized chunks of wisdom. DeMarco takes on the myths and the problems
of team management. He backs his analysis with witty/tragic anecdotes, plus
hard statistical data on efficiency and productivity.
Project Teams: Galley Slaves, Pirates or the Love Boat
PM Talk Newsletter,
Fairly detailed and useful article on managing teams.
Tame These 10 Types of Techies
Not to pick on techies, well, okay, why not! This articles identifies the 10 most common "tech types" and offers ways to work with them.