“We don’t need no stinking Gantt chart!”
Last year I wrote about Map Days (search for Solera and you’ll find my entries). You may recall that Map […]
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Leadership
Dance of Change
In the Dance of Change by Senge, et. al., the authors present five disciplines for individuals and teams to study
Pirates Fighting Among Themselves While the Spanish Galleon Sails On Up
This past summer I went to a baseball game. It wasn’t completely without benefit. I enjoyed indulging in the traditional
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How can a career vision help me with my career
Steve Wynkoop and I were talking a lot about designing and managing our professional careers on a weekly interview on SSWUG.org. This episode was about what steps to change your position in the your current company.
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What if two product managers disagree on something and can only agree to disagree?
I received the below great question a few days after my Art of War for Product Managers and High-Performing Professionals.
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How to do things that scare us.
There are things in our professional careers that naturally scare us, but are required for advancement and continued growth. We are normally afraid of places we haven’t been before, things we haven’t tried before or subject matter that we know nothing about. If fear is a sign that we are pushing our envelop, then conquering that fear is a sign of real personal and professional growth.
So, how do we gather enough courage to take that next step?
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Asking the right question takes skill
By Laura Lee Rose, author of TimePeace: Making peace with time I had a vivid dream last night. In this
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Do one scary thing a day.
This week we will take a short-cut into slapping ourselves back on the path. We won’t spend time investigating why and what took us off our course. Instead, we will jump into action with the idea of “doing one scary thing a day” to help keep up moving forward at a faster pace.
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Keep Your Culture Positive!
Which is more effective to improve team performance: positive feedback or constructive criticism? a positive culture or a negative one?
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Remote Pair Programming
I’ve been enamored of remote pair programming since briefly leading development at Socialtext, where no three developers were in the
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Strategic Planning: Which Direction Shall We Go?
Signs and times are confusing. Which way should organizations go? Which mix of projects can get you there? So how
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