You don’t think you need one, but you do. Something to manage all your projects, your tasks, your ideas, your deliverables, your leads, your contacts, your customers. Did I forget anything? How much of that is rummaging around across a variety of disparate tools that you can barely manage on your desktop? Pick a tool, use it for everything, get all your information together, make sure it works across all platforms you use (if it…
They will change and shift and confuse and destroy any ounce of progress you are trying to make. If you have a daily scrum every morning and every morning the priorities are different and in direct conflict with the priorities from the day before then by the end of that week you will have accomplished nothing. And neither will your team. And if you can’t stop the changing priorities, learn to intercept them, figure out…
Sprint Planning is not easy. Your first few sprints will be a mess as you try to figure out the perfect balance between productivity, delivery, and usefulness. When getting started, there are some red flags that you want to be aware of to ensure you are getting as much out of it as others. If you are working on work that no one is going to look at for another two sprints, you’re probably working…
They should really call Change a different word – like terror, fear, tension, powerless, worried, scared. Just get it right out there – those are all the emotions you are going to through in the first 15 – 30 minutes of the change being presented to you. It’s not easy, it never will be, if it was easy it would be called something else. But now that you know all the “bad” words associated with…
Do Facebook Ads work and get you the $$$ they promise? Only if you keep doing them. I’ve been running experiments across a couple of different platforms on a couple of different products over the last few months and have been impressed with the reach and potential of Ads. But like anything you have to keep feeding the engine because if you don’t it’ll stall out. I write this not as an expert on Facebook…