October Goals
I feel like September was a giant blur of meetings, reacting to issues, more meetings and watching my own deadlines blow past me. That leaves me with an October goal list that looks very familiar. Leadership Department Training This month I’ll begin consulting with the rest of the management staff in my department to get … Continue reading
BI Problems – Report Chaos
I have to say straight out that while my work environment may be unique in many areas, I doubt that I am the only one to have come across this issue. For over a decade we have allowed users outside of IT unrestricted access to production environments to write their own reports in their own … Continue reading
Weekly Review – Evernote Rocks!
One Thing I’ve Learned This week in my Everyone Communicates Few Connect training we discussed the barriers that can prevent you from finding common ground with those around you, Assumption (‘I already know what others know, feel or want.’), Arrogance (‘I don’t need to know what others know, feel or want.’), Indifference (‘I don’t care … Continue reading
September Goals
Leadership Welcome to Management After a few weeks’ worth of research and gathering the input of about a dozen new managers, I’ve come up with a fairly comprehensive solution to the ‘tossed into the frying pan’ issue. I’ve drawn up a proposal to implement a landing page where anyone new to management can find training, forms … Continue reading
Agile So Far – August
We are now on our third iteration and I’m feeling far more confident about our ability to execute consistently but am going to stay focused here for at least another iteration to ensure we’ve captured as many issue type scenarios and contingency plans. All in all I feel like we’re doing pretty well. We’re hitting … Continue reading
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