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About SoftwareProjects.org – Bas de Baar Bio



About SoftwareProjects.org

"The mission of SoftwareProjects.org is to make global, virtual and multi cultural software projects work. By this we don't only mean delivering the proper end result within agreed constraints, but also by running the projects in such a way that they provide a genuine contribution towards a sustainable global society. SoftwareProjects.org will accomplish this by seeking to understand the underlying problems and opportunities and distribute the acquired knowledge." more

About Bas

Bas de Baar, blogging as "The Project Shrink", is taking his message to the International Project Management community with a vengeance: "Projects Are About Humans, Now Deal With That!" With over a decade spent in the trenches as Software Project Manager within the publishing industry, running multi-national teams, he has a lot to talk about.

Bas is the editor of SoftwareProjects.org, a website dedicated to all those people who make up IT projects. He holds a masters degree in Business Informatics and currently lives with his wife in the coastal town of Zandvoort, The Netherlands. His latest book, "Surprise! Now You’re a Software Project Manager", was published in September 2006.

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current topics of interest
Communication in a global and virtual environment
Leadership in a global and virtual environment
Mental flexibility (switch lenses, assumptions, viewpoints)
Resilience in human systems
Sensing the environment (pattern recognition, visualization, reasoning)
Tools: Social Media
speaking and training topics
Improving Your Soft Skills (for tech people)
Increasing Your Mental Flexibility (for tech people)
Working In A Multi-Cultural Environment (for tech people)
Managing Stakeholders In Software Projects
Choosing The Proper Project Approach In Dynamic Circumstances (for IT projects)
Promoting Yourself In A Flat World
Analyzing Complex Situations (for Project Managers)
other media
IPMA Project Management Practice Spring 2007:
"Using Stakeholder Analysis in Software Project Management"
How Male Machismo Shaped Project Management, PM World Today, October 2007
Why Agile Popped Up on the Radar When it Did, PM World Today, November 2007
Why do Developers contribute to Open Source? PM World Today, December 2007
Contributions to University of California Extension, Santa Cruz blog
Monthly column at TechTarget.com: Project Management In Perspective
interviews
The Intersection of Project Management and Change Management: An Interview With Bas de Baar of Project Shrink, August 2008
Controling Chaos Podcast, Januari 2007
Project Management Podcast, September 2006
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September 12th, 2007 | Category: Book | Comments
  • Abdullahi Abdi
    i am a student Bachelor of Public Administration.I did project planning and management as a paper this semester and would like to learn more about project planning than i was tought.please tell me the name of your best book for this subject.thank you in advance
  • Bas
    Sorry I don't have a best book on planning. Best books on Software PM are Brooks Mythical Man Month and Peopleware from DeMarco and Lister.
  • Great site. I am starting a role where I will be leading a software development team. I've taking a look at your site so far, and I am sure that I will look further into it.
  • Matt
    Hi Bas

    I got here via youtube. Great blog and PM esources. I'm curious - what software did you use to create the video Project Management in 60 seconds - Part 1?

    Matt
  • Peter
    Hi bas,

    I have been looking for a web-based system that lets me defina a couple of users, then I would like to be able tu put in tasks, that are sent out to the users via Email, then they get a link, and when the task is done, then can go to the site and mark it as done. It is smal tasks, like make updates on a webpge or stuff like that, is it a project managment tool I need? It seems to me, that they are way to powerfull for my task, do you know about what I could use?

    regards Peter
  • Bas
    Hi Matt, Thanks for the compliment. The animations are created with The Sims game, edit in iMovie.
  • Thank you for the book Bas, which I heard about from your podcast. It's a great read.
  • Hi Paul, thanks for the kind words.
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