Email Effectiveness
I’m old enough to remember life before “Smart” Phones, Cell Phones, PDAs, and Email. Heck, I still remember the smell […]
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Help I’m in Meeting Hell!
Recently I looked at my calendar and caught myself saying “Sweeeet only 4 hours of meetings today”. That’s when I
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The Plan is Nothing but Planning is Everything
A mentor of mine once attributed this quote to General George Patton. I don’t know for sure if Patton said
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How do you know you have Management Support?
Yesterday I said that “as the Program Manager it is your responsibility to make sure your team has what they
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Resource Poaching 101
Have you ever been the program manager on a job where you planned everything down to the smallest detail; you
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Think Like a Leader
In my examples this week, I’ve been writing about ways to convince those with the power to embrace some good
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Work smarter?
I just loved the latest grievance from my students (see Monday/Tuesday/Thursday posts). When being given more work than schedule to
Project Interrupted
One more complaint from my students (see Monday/Tuesday posts) is: “I’m given other jobs, in addition to my coding, and
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Mourning a Venerable Oak Tree
My blogging was interrupted Sunday night by a power outage at home. A neighbor’s huge oak tree had fallen, totally
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The Only Thing that is Constant is Change
A second complaint from my students (see yesterday’s post) is: “Management adds requirements to my project without asking me if
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New Class, Same Story
I’m in the middle of teaching my Software Requirements Engineering course at UCSC Extension. On the first day of class,
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