This Month’s Agile Interview Corner Features Alexander Frumkin Talking About Psychological Safety
This interview was conducted and written by SVPM Scrum Team program volunteers, Katie Karp and Meghana Panth. Executive Editor, Donald …
Commitment
How to schedule 2 weeks of vacation when we have aggressive delivery schedules.
Hello, this is Laura Lee Rose. I am a speaker and author. I am an expert in time and project …
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Why are managers more satisfied with their life than non-managerial employees?
A recent Pew Research Center survey found that managers are more satisfied with their family life, jobs and overall financial …
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You can’t get your money, unless you ask for it
4 weeks after I had completed his taxes for him, I asked this friend-first-removed if he had received his refund yet. He confessed that he has the forms signed, but he has not mailed them in yet.
“Well — you know you can’t get your money, until you mail the forms in….”
It’s the same in life and work. It’s more difficult to get what you really want if you don’t explicitly ask for it and then follow-through with your plan.
How to Introduce Process Improvements Successfully
Does your team seem to be allergic to process? Have you been trying to implement project management best practices and …
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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.
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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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.
The Confidence to Go For It!
(This article is part of a series originally published in Japan by ALC Press English Journal, and is written in …
What we can learn from Judge Judy
It’s impossible not to judge. Telling someone else “not to judge” — shows you have made the judgment that they are judging. Most opinions, descriptions, decisions, views, rulings, and critiques are judgments.
How a diet tip helped me get a work-related request accomplished.
I know this sounds strange, but I used a diet tip that I read from Micheal Thurmond’s “6 Day Body Makeover” – to accomplish career critical tasks.