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Monday, October 08, 2007 10:55 AM

Jim Highsmith on the Chaos reports

Max Wideman got permission to reprint Jim Highsmith's article The Chaos Report - Reality Challenged . Jim takes on the Chaos report for their definitions of success and failure. This is something that has bothered me for years. I've been on several "failed...
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Monday, October 08, 2007 10:53 AM

Trust in Agile Teams - SAO QA SIG Retrospective

There was a great group at the SAO QA SIG yesterday. Thanks to the organizers , sponsors and WebTrends for the space. There was a goodly number of people from the QA profession (not surprisingly), but yet a surprisingly large number of non-QA focused...
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Friday, April 14, 2006 4:40 PM

Christopher Avery - Responsibility Tip

I've heard Christopher Avery speak once and had a couple of email conversations and I have deep respect for the message he is trying to get across. His e-Tip from Feb '06 is this: Three ways you and I reduce our ability to respond and lead everyday: Denial...
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Monday, January 31, 2005 8:55 AM

Kirk on Buy or Build

Another good post from Consultants Guild member Kirk Miller . Who's Process? Who owns the kingdom? How long is that line? Let's figure this out
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Wednesday, December 29, 2004 2:45 PM

How to Hang a Picture

the spurious pundit has a really good post on how hard it is for manager types to do a good job of telling people what they want done. Snippets: First off, there's the mechanics of how to do it. What tools does he need? You know that there's a hammer...
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Monday, December 27, 2004 1:46 PM

Product Management Rule #1

In my previous post we had some good discussion regarding rule # 1: The best product managers follow the Pragmatic Marketing maxim: Your opinion, while interesting, is irrelevant. Always use market facts to decide the best course of action. The general...
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Thursday, December 23, 2004 11:54 AM

10 rules for successful product managers to live by

From a copyrighted story at SoftwareCEO written by Bob Weinstein Software product management: If you can't define it, you're doing a bad job at it Product managers' rule #1: The best product managers follow the Pragmatic Marketing maxim: Your opinion...
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Thursday, December 16, 2004 7:23 AM

How to Demoralize your Staff (or not)

From Project, Process & Business Improvement: Are You Loved? A.J. found in Executive Leadership this list of the 5 biggest complaints employees have about their bosses: Threats Inconsistency Wasting their time Micromanaging them Hypocrisy How many...
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Thursday, December 02, 2004 8:49 AM

The 6 Myths Of Creativity

FastCompany has an article on the 6 myths of creativity . Creativity Comes From Creative Types Money Is a Creativity Motivator Time Pressure Fuels Creativity Fear Forces Breakthroughs Competition Beats Collaboration A Streamlined Organization Is a Creative...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2004 8:03 AM

The problem with annual performance reviews

Esther Derby has a great post on an alternative to the yearly performance review . She also gives a great suggestion for dealing with what most employees want out of a review, money. I'm sure if it wasn't for the salary tie-in, employees would revolt...
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