Tag: Productivity
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Meeting Agenda as Catalyst?
What are leading reasons for unproductive review sessions of project deliverables? One comes quickly to mind for me – how about when 90% of…
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Planning a Successful Review Meeting, Part I
Holding requirement specification reviews is an activity that is critical to ensuring the quality of your deliverables. Review meetings aren’t typically “fun”, but they…
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Design for Use and Reuse
One way IT factories can really hurt themselves and their companies is by underemphasizing, or not considering at all the notion that systems and…
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More Analysis Paralysis
Breaking out of analysis paralysis doesn’t require you to lower your standards, or to aim lower than you would otherwise. It just requires some…
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The 6 "Be's" of Meeting Etiquette
A meeting can be very productive. A meeting can be a veritable nightmare. A lot depends on the professionalism of the participants. I’ve devised…
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The Cornell Method of Note-taking
Ok, so a lot of folks nowadays will type their meeting notes directly into their laptops, and that’s not a bad thing. It certainly…