Book Club – Deep Dive by Rich Horwath
Every year I let my team pick a book that some will become the basis of our monthly book club, this year they chose a book called Deep Dive by Rich Horwath. The book focuses on how to implement strategic planning as a team by focusing on three disciplines; acumen or understanding your business environment, … Continue reading
Weekly Wrap Up – HabitBull, Checky and Hootlet
One Thing I Learned This thing made me ridiculously giddy! If you are using SQL Server Management Studio and you have IntelliSense enable and you often do select * from to quickly view data you can actually hover over the * and get a column list. I actually have the object explorer always open so … Continue reading
Agile So Far – October 2014
Estimation When we started our Agile implementation our ability to predict when projects would be completed was at an average of 30% of the time. Almost immediately, well within six months, we had already seen that percentage increase up to 60%. This last year I set a goal with all my team members to get … Continue reading
October 2014 – Goals
Projects This month we’re wrapping up a two new data warehouses, since both are with new user groups we’ll be doing a ton of training and are expecting quite a bit of enhancements as they start digging through their data. We’re also ramping down our Lotus Notes to SharePoint conversion; more than 800 separate databases … Continue reading
July 2014 Goals
More Agile Training This month I am traveling to Rochester to facilitate an Agile boot camp for one of my company’s digital development and design teams. I’m excited to do some training, meet with a new team and learn about their challenges. I really do enjoy showing folks how Agile can help them overcome problems … Continue reading
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