10 Hidden Time Wasters
We often inadvertently waste time because we don’t recognize the symptoms. Check out the video list of the video’s 10 hidden time wasters and tell me which ones were a surprise to you.
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Similarities Between Parenting a Newborn and Project Management
(Posted anonymously on behalf of a program engineering manager at a fine, upstanding organization where it would be best if
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How to speed up operations and deliveries.
With clients expecting orders to be turned around faster than in the past, how can a small business speed up their operations?
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How do companies prevent remote workers from feeling “left out”?
I recently received the following question: How do companies prevent remote workers from feeling “left out”? I’m not a fan
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5 Ways to Get That Raise
Have this ever happened to you? You get a great performance review; they are very pleased with your work; they say they would like to give you a raise — BUT, due to budget problems, it is not possible at that time. What do you do to succeed?
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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.
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Keeping an external job offer alive
It’s usually bad news when your job offer is put on hold. Sometimes the offer disappears. So what strategies can you employ to make sure you keep that offer alive even if the employer has to suspend plans for bringing you on board?
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Keeping an internal job offer alive
It’s usually bad news when your job offer is put on hold. Sometimes the offer disappears. So what strategies can you employ to make sure you keep that offer alive even if the employer has to suspend plans for bringing you on board?
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The most convincing reason to change from waterfall to agile
Given virtually no one on product teams believes in waterfall – even those using waterfall (see my last post on
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No One Believes in Waterfall
The most startling result coming out of this year’s just-released Study of Product Team Performance came in response to two
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The 2013 Study of Product Team Performance
The 2013 Study of Product Team Performance is out! The results are not quite as across-the-board extraordinary as last year’s
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