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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How to manage a project
The essentials of project management in under 500 words What’s a project? A project is any endeavor that takes time
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Project Management at 30 Below — the AGO project cycle, Part 3
So what are the lessons learned that project managers can take for a project like this? When I asked Andy
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Project Management at 30 Below — the AGO project cycle, Part 2
Once the planning and preparation are complete, getting to an Automatic Geophysical Observatory (AGO) site can seem like a project
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Project Management at 30 Below — the AGO project cycle, Part 1
Early December. Andy woke to bright sunshine and a light snowfall… inside his tent. The sun had been up already
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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.
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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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How to do things that scare us.
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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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.
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Colleges: Teach the “How”!
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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Remote Pair Programming
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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