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After almost a year of procrastination, I finally took some time this past week and put together a presentation that I have uploaded to SlideShare with my thoughts on Writing Requirements. Requirements are not hard to write but time and time again I see people get confused on the how they should write them, instead of the who they are writing them for, what are they writing and why are they writing them. I put…

Whether your in a position of authority or leadership or simply the gal whose been assigned to get a task done where whatever little bit of authority you have could be gone tomorrow when you move onto the next project the question is always the same – should I ask or should I tell? One could argue that the end “task completion” result will always be higher when you tell someone what to do, after all…

One post I wrote about a few weeks ago whilst doing my altMBA was more of a reminder to myself, but I think it bears mentioning across everything we do. When the problems are large and heavy, we all have a tendency to glaze over them at first glance, perhaps become – “knowledgeable in a lot of things, but not really having deep understanding in a few things” – you know, get a gist for…

Many airlines now push for us to use our phone for check-in and use as little paper as possible.  Even hotel and car bookings can all be done electronically – give them your email address – get your booking information, time and date and pickup, how long you are staying, is there a pool in the hotel, etc, etc, etc. All this push to do everything electronically.   Sometimes I am not the person booking…

Thirty-One days ago I joined the altMBA class and today it ends.  It started off with a bang and end with a loud KABOOM! Every week I felt like this gif of Kermit, typing furiously to ship once, twice and keep on shipping, day in and day out.  On top of that, I worked to keep up with all the reading on my plate as well as reading and contributing to others.  I’m not going to…