Project Junction

My Grandpa Joe owned a gas station back in the day when an “island boy”ran out to your car to perform a full inspection of your tire pressure, wipers, and fluids while filling your tank with gas. That’s right, long ago in a far away land, someone once filled your tank while you sat in […]

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Are you a project manager or ScrumMaster? During your daily scrums to assess project status, you ask your team three basic questions:

What did you do for the project yesterday?
What are you planning to do today?
Do you have any obstacles preventing you from accomplishing your goal?

Given that the goal is to get in and get out […]

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CYNTHIA DANAHER divides the people she has worked with over the years into three types:

There are those who say, “There’s a rat in this room, and I’m going to kill it,”
A second group says, “There’s a rat in this room; let’s figure out a plan to kill it.”
And a third group asks, “Did anyone notice […]

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I wonder how Apple runs their decision checkpoint meetings? If their meetings are like our meetings in IBM, here’s how the decision to charter the iPod possibly played out.  “Here ye. Here ye. Now that we’ve reviewed the project proposal for this music system, it’s time to vote.  Let’s go around the table and vote […]

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I am going to call out a team member in this post. To protect his identity, I won’t tell you his middle name. Anywhoo … Chuck [?] Bryan exhibits behaviors that deserve recognition:

He calls people directly on the phone to discuss complex topics.
Even when he disagrees with me, I feel like buying him […]

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