This interview is part 1 of the DrunkenPM’s interview with Mike Sutton, CEO of Wizewerx.

In this part of the interview Mike explains how he uses Scrum, XP, and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) in his Mashup approach to managing software projects and Agile teams.

For more on Mike Sutton, visit Wizewerks.

In this episode:

• Viewer feedback from Episode #4 – The Exploding Mailbox
• Dave’s new blog on The Art of War for Project Managers
• The Crisis Commons response to the situation in Haiti
• The cultural differences between the current generations in the workforce.

Some links from this episode:
The Art of War for Project Managers blog: http://drunkenpm.blogspot.com/

Crisis Commons URL: http://crisiscommons.org/
Twitter: @crisiscamp

The Next-Generation Workforce and Project Management http://bit.ly/PP5-NextGen

If you are a PM and you are going to be at Macworld, please email Dave – he’d like to meet up with you -> dave@mrsungo.com

Bas and Dave answer the questions that blew up Bas’s mailbox.

The questions:

• How do you set expectations in such a way that the team member will attribute right priority to the tasks assigned by you?
• How do you manage rapidly shared resources?
• How to bring bad news to a sponsor? Especially when he/she is not a real sponsor.
• How can a project leader overcome his/her fear for bringing bad news?
• What are the early symptoms of a project that would eventually fail?
• How to use effectively online media for communication in projects?

Send your comments, suggestions or questions to potion@projectshrink.com.

Some notes on Episode #3 – The New Team

We discuss what happens when you get a new team. How do you select people? What if people don’t fit in?

The hotel in NYC that Dave refers to is the Roger Smith Hotel and they have a discount for folks who follow their twitter feed -> @RSHotel

When Bas talks about the Rules of Engagement for Project Launch, he refers to an article on Anticlue.net. Here is the link: http://www.anticlue.net/archives/001028.htm

The weird cut/edit in the back half of the video is due to the fact that we shot the video on a Saturday afternoon, and at 12 PM every Saturday, they test the tornado siren right next to Dave’s house in the New Vegas (Oklahoma City).

Bas and Dave close out 2009 with a review of the things they’ve learned over the past 12 months.

A few links from the podcast.

Artisanal Retro-Futurism crossed with Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism: http://arxta.net

Pulse LiveScribe: http://www.livescribe.com

Yammer: https://www.yammer.com/