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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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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By Laura Lee Rose, author of TimePeace: Making peace with time I had a vivid dream last night. In this
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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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Which is more effective to improve team performance: positive feedback or constructive criticism? a positive culture or a negative one?
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We’re at an inflection point. Agile practices transitioned over the last couple years from “emerging” to “predominant”. Companies are sampling
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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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Signs and times are confusing. Which way should organizations go? Which mix of projects can get you there? So how
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In keeping with the topic of back to the basics, lets talk about Communication. In my previous post I mentioned
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Managing Projects Overseas – Part III – Simplify the Process We just spoke of global perspective of managing projects overseas,
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Managing Overseas Projects – Part II – Minimizing the “Culture” Gaps The “Culture” gaps is not something that one would
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