Project Junction

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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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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I read the book 175 Ways to Get More Done in Less Time! by David Cottrell and Mark Layton this weekend and found it chock full of useful tips. Here’s just a sampling of tips that relate to how you maintain your desk. Look around. Be honest. How organized and efficient is your workspace?

When you […]

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Fortune asked 25 accomplished people to relate the best and worst advice they ever got. They didn’t ask me, but if they had … here’s what I would have shared.
The best advice I ever got came in the 70’s when hair was long, shirts were silk, and Pablo Cruise ruled the airwaves. That’s my brother […]

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I live in an IBM world enamored by pointless presentations. PowerPoint decks choke our mailboxes with pointless data. Meetings present these decks in a variety of formats delivered by emotionless wonks.
My personal growth mission over the last six months has been to improve my own presentation skills so that I don’t contribute to the wasted […]

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