Regardless of economic conditions, if you're laid-off, it's likely to feel personal and your emotions will probably fluctuate between uncomfortable and devastated. In a recent article for CBS, Katherine Cowley, a New York psychiatrist commented - “We like to deny that we are expendable. So when we are told ‘we have to let you go,’ it feels like
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What to do if you get Laid-off - How to Exit your Job Gracefully
Regardless of economic conditions, if you're laid-off, it's likely to feel personal and your emotions will probably fluctuate between uncomfortable and devastated. In a recent article…
Project closeout is critical, yet for one reason or another, it's an area that's often left loose at the ends - with the potential for disastrous consequences.
Professionals who closeout properly create significant benefits for themselves, their or…
Business stakeholders regularly 'squeeze' teams with time, money or features constraints. And doing agile in these conditions can seem a difficult or impossible task. Actually, it is usually possible to work within these constraints and still be agi…
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What to do if you get Laid-off - How to Exit your Job Gracefully
Posted on February 8, 2010 at 9:30am —
How to Successfully Closeout a Project
Project closeout is critical, yet for one reason or another, it's an area that's often left loose at the ends - with the potential for disastrous consequences.
Professionals who closeout properly create significant benefits for themselves, their organization and for others - better success prospects for future projects, increased employee motivation, better customer relations, improved attractiveness to repeat and new business and so on...
A good closeout process includes:
Verify Scope… Continue
Professionals who closeout properly create significant benefits for themselves, their organization and for others - better success prospects for future projects, increased employee motivation, better customer relations, improved attractiveness to repeat and new business and so on...
A good closeout process includes:
Verify Scope… Continue
Posted on January 28, 2010 at 12:12pm —
Strategies for dealing with Agile Project Constraints
Business stakeholders regularly 'squeeze' teams with time, money or features constraints. And doing agile in these conditions can seem a difficult or impossible task. Actually, it is usually possible to work within these constraints and still be agile.
Project managers will be familiar with the 'iron triangle' concept, which states that of the three factors -resources (cost, budget), schedule (time) and scope (features, functionality), at least one must vary to maintain quality.
In an ideal wo… Continue
Project managers will be familiar with the 'iron triangle' concept, which states that of the three factors -resources (cost, budget), schedule (time) and scope (features, functionality), at least one must vary to maintain quality.
In an ideal wo… Continue
Posted on December 7, 2009 at 11:02am —
Strategies for dealing with project constraints (and remaining agile)
Business stakeholders regularly 'squeeze' teams with time, money or features constraints. And doing agile in these conditions can seem a difficult or impossible task. Actually, it is usually possible to work within these constraints and still be agile.
Project managers will be familiar with the 'iron triangle' concept, which states that of the three factors -resources (cost, budget), schedule (time) and scope (features, functionality), at least one must vary to maintain quality.
In an ideal wo… Continue
Project managers will be familiar with the 'iron triangle' concept, which states that of the three factors -resources (cost, budget), schedule (time) and scope (features, functionality), at least one must vary to maintain quality.
In an ideal wo… Continue
Posted on December 7, 2009 at 11:00am —
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