I came across Catherine Aurelio’s talk on Gamefication at TEDx Santa Cruz earlier this year. I enjoyed her thoughtful look at the current trend of gamifying absolutely everything to attract and engage consumers with a product or service. If you are not familiar with this trend, Catherine does a great job of explaining it. Sometimes […]
November 17, 2011
Be Inspiring
Over a year ago, I asked my team to brainstorm some ideas on what each and every person on the team could do to be inspiring to the people around them on a daily basis. It is important to me that my teams work to rise above the day-to-day grind and that we be the […]
November 7, 2011
Why My Team Likes Performance Evaluations
It’s performance evaluation season at my company and I have been working long hours to get all of them done. I have read a lot of articles that are strongly against performance evaluations because of the damage they can do to individual motivation and team dynamics. Having been the recipient of demotivating evaluations (even though […]
October 31, 2011
Agile And PMI: It Is Not A Competition
A few months ago, I decided to embrace reality. I decided to volunteer for the Community Editorial Board for Project Management Institute (PMI) Agile Community of Practice. While I have been a member of the PMI for many years, I never pursued my project management certification (PMP). I work in one of the few industries […]
October 23, 2011
Playing Your Zone
Have you ever walked away from a meeting thinking you had just witnessed a thing of beauty? It does not happen to me very often, but I was fortunate enough to witness that twice this year.
October 9, 2011
The Root Of All Evil
Many people I have worked with over the years have tried to tell me what the biggest problem was with whatever company we were working for. No company is perfect; there is always some sort of organizational friction. Technical people thought it was because we didn’t have the latest tools or equipment. The creative types […]
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November 21, 2011
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