10 Things I Wish Everyone Understood – Email Edition
Reply All Is Best in Moderation We’ve all seen that inbox number spike and looked with dread at a plethora with the same subject line. Is it an emergency? Something catastrophic? No, it’s the dreaded reply all avalanche; completely unnecessary and some might argue a flat out nuisance. Keep in mind that everyone on that … 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
February 2014 Goals
2014 Release Planning I am about 75% there! Most of the plan is done and we are currently working as if it is set and stone. However, I have one customer that pushed back our meeting and our organizational overview was schedule for the end of this month. I’m not expecting a lot of changes … Continue reading
January Links – Conflict, Meetings and Pride
Favorite business links from January 2014 Conflict Strategies for Nice People Dealing with conflict is by far my least favorite thing to do and it’s easily 20% of my daily job. There really isn’t any way to get around it, you can ignore it at your own career peril or you can find the best way … Continue reading
Weekly Wrap Up – Zicam, User Stories, Intersect
Five Things I Accomplished Next week I am conducting an Agile user story workshop for a large group of newish product owners. I’ve only done this type of training for developers/project leads so reworking it to fit folks who aren’t used writing up requirements was an interesting exercise on its own. This year my team … Continue reading
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