January 2014 Goals
2014 Release Plan We have a multi stage process for determining what projects will be worked on every year. The first stage is a general wish list developed by the actual IT team; this includes all the projects that really don’t have much user value, such as upgrading servers or cleaning up libraries. Next we … Continue reading
Weekly Wrap Up – Kodyaz, Agile Exams and Do Nothing
One Thing I’ve Learned Over the years I’ve collected a bunch of methods to pivot data in queries and result sets, some easy, some way too complicated, none really the best method. This week I finally sat down and focused on learning how to use the Pivot function in SQL Server (It’s not as easy … Continue reading
December 2013 Goals
Leadership A few weeks ago I turned in a draft proposal for my 2014 leadership skills training program, this is the facilitated book club I’ve led the last two years, in that proposal I requested that we add a third group and facilitator and that we also move to two to books a year to … Continue reading
Agile Project Management
Whenever I’m chatting with a project or software development manager and the conversation turns to Agile I always get the same response; “That would never work for us!” quickly followed by “How do you maintain your project management responsibilities?” To the former, yes, Agile absolutely would work. Assuming you implement it in a way that … Continue reading
October 2013 Goals
Leadership 2014 Leadership Training Our facilitators meeting went really we decided to propose we each do two classes next year, do them on alternating weeks and limit participation to 15 attendees due to the size of our conference rooms. Our new books are still in the midst of the decision making process, we’re definitely going … Continue reading
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