by Vishal Bardoloi | Nov 26, 2014 | blog
I’ve heard this self-help mantra so many times, in so many forms, that until recently I had accepted it as truth: If you want to achieve your goal, make it public. Until recently, when I saw this Ted Talk by Derek Sivers. The thesis: telling someone your goal...
by Nolan Egly | Nov 25, 2014 | blog
Corey Haines (@coreyhaines) wrote an interesting article on something he’s calling short-lived branches. The short version is: Corey observed that we sometimes think of better ways to code something after we’ve started, but won’t start over (in economics this is...
by Shawn Peterson | Nov 20, 2014 | blog
I have read numerous blog posts over the past year around the topic of why Scrum is outdated, and no longer a valuable option for Agile teams. I fully understand how Scrum can go wrong – I also have been in the endless unproductive planning meetings,...
by Glenn Burnside | Nov 20, 2014 | blog
According to a 2013 Frost & Sullivan study, more than 80% of line-of-business employees admit to practicing “shadow IT”: using SaaS applications without the knowledge or blessing of their IT groups.[1] It’s a practice that presents obvious security, data...
by Melissa Tullues | Nov 18, 2014 | blog
I hate meeting minutes. You know – those notes that you scribble down during the meeting, trying to make sure that you capture the key points while also participating in the discussion, and then squeezing in time afterwards to package them up into a legible...
