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“Bonding”, A Virtual Team Survival Tactic

By Jim Sloane / February 12, 2008

NO, not bonding like guys going camping together, or a serendipitous encounter of old friends. I’m talking about some serious, […]

By Jim Sloane / February 11, 2008

There’s a remodel going on in my house, and the general contractor spends so much time actually doing the finish

By Ed Gaeta / February 10, 2008

I’m old enough to remember life before “Smart” Phones, Cell Phones, PDAs, and Email. Heck, I still remember the smell

By Ed Gaeta / February 7, 2008

Recently I looked at my calendar and caught myself saying “Sweeeet only 4 hours of meetings today”. That’s when I

By Ed Gaeta / February 6, 2008

A mentor of mine once attributed this quote to General George Patton. I don’t know for sure if Patton said

By Ed Gaeta / February 5, 2008

Yesterday I said that “as the Program Manager it is your responsibility to make sure your team has what they

By Ed Gaeta / February 4, 2008

Have you ever been the program manager on a job where you planned everything down to the smallest detail; you

By Anita Wotiz / February 4, 2008

In my examples this week, I’ve been writing about ways to convince those with the power to embrace some good

By Anita Wotiz / January 29, 2008

A second complaint from my students (see yesterday’s post) is: “Management adds requirements to my project without asking me if

By Anita Wotiz / January 28, 2008

I’m in the middle of teaching my Software Requirements Engineering course at UCSC Extension. On the first day of class,

By Sandra Clark / January 28, 2008

UCSC Extension did an onsite class in Creative Thinking at Cisco last month. I thought you might resonate with the results. And