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
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
GTD The Weekly Review
The Weekly Review is a download you can get from the David Allen Company website that outlines a process you can do on a weekly basis to help you close out your weeks’ worth of work and prepare for the next week’s. It basically is a pretty simple checklist you can go through in about an … Continue reading
Running Better Meetings
Let’s talk a bit about meetings. I hate meetings! Well maybe I should be more specific – I hate meetings without a clear and defined purpose. By that I mean discussion meetings, status meetings and those meetings to just socialize, meetings where at the end of an hour I really have no idea why we … Continue reading
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