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Results-Focused Teams Over Role-Focused Teams
In my experience, talent and passion are the keys to effective teams. It's not better defined roles. In PM Tip#14: Great teams have members that defy roles , Brad Abrams writes that the best teams defy traditional roles and responsibilities, and I agree. Read More...
Posted 25 October 07 09:02 by J.D. Meier | 4 Comments   
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David Anderson's Recipe for Success
David Anderson distills his software management learnings down into four bullets: Focus on Quality Reduce Work-in-progress Balance capacity against demand Prioritize He names this set a recipe for sucess. Here's what the recipe mean to me. Focus on Quality. Read More...
Posted 11 March 07 06:04 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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My Personal Approach for Daily Results
I'm dedicating this post to anybody who's faced with task saturation, or needs some new ideas on managing their days or weeks... One of the most important techniques I share with those I mentor, is how to manage To Dos. It's too easy to experience churn Read More...
Posted 04 February 07 02:46 by J.D. Meier | 16 Comments   
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2 Key Process Pitfalls
If I had to pick two easily corrected issues I see show up time and again, I'd pick: Optimizing the wrong thing. Optimizing your process, when what you need is a different process. Two questions I think help: "What do you want to optimize?" (time? money? Read More...
Posted 03 February 07 03:51 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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What Are You Optimizing
This is such a fundamental question. It has an enormous impact on your product design and how you structure your product life cycle. For example, are you optimizing time? ... money? ... impact? ... innovation? ... resource utilization? If you don't answer Read More...
Posted 02 February 07 06:40 by J.D. Meier | 4 Comments   
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Time-boxes, Rhythm, and Incremental Value
Today I had some interesting conversations with Loren Kohnfelder . Every now and then Loren and I play catch up. Loren is former Microsoft. If you don't know Loren, he designed the CLR security model and IE security zones. He created a model for more Read More...
Posted 17 March 06 04:01 by J.D. Meier | 5 Comments   
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