There is a great app I use to find pictures of work I want to build or draw. I follow tons of people and admire their work. The problem, however, is that I can barely find them once I have followed them and trying to find their updates is the actual work in trying to find a needle in a haystack multiplied by the needle being at the bottom of the ocean. I have found…
I sometimes need to remind business users, product managers and analysts of this. Within the parameters of what you want, gives us the cadillac of your dreams, and we’ll figure out a way to get there. But if you give us the tractor, sure we can do it, but chances are it’s going to look like a tractor and not the cadillac you were hoping for and thought we’d be able to infer from your…
The question is whether they want to. Whether you want to learn something is completely up to you and is the difference between someone else learning something new and you. People respect that you want to learn something new, that you are trying something new, that you are putting yourself out there to figure something out. Whether you get there is immaterial, it’s that you want to learn and that you are trying. Want more?…
If you want your online meeting to succeed you are going to have to commit to taking the following steps on an ongoing basis; Start on time.Come Prepared.Know is expected of you.Understand what the goal of the meeting is for.Validate your connectivity. And this is only if you are an attendee on the call – the list for a presenter is all this and more. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up…
In a heated meeting, where everyone has an opinion and reason for being there, we all have something to say. However, this is no excuse for speaking over one another and interrupting people. In a meeting room, you can see the passion coming from people as they speak and as you make eye contact with your interrupted colleague to let them rant on so that we can get back to the topic at hand you…