As leaders I think we all find our teams besieged by fires at one point in

time or another.  Sometimes it seems they’re simply building one atop another

and, unless you can do something, you risk being over run…your core mission

compromised.

In a corporate environment the fires can seem to come at your team from every direction.  The President pulls on your strings, Sales is pulling on Development, Projects demand ECOs…

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This morning I discovered an engaging article, “Making a Successful Software Licensing & Entitlement Management Project a Reality.”

The crux of the article is a focus on two groups, Product Management and IT, that need to be involved when deciding to make changes to your company’s software licensing and…

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“Getting Things Done—The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”

by: David Allen

ISBN: 978-1-101-12849-7

Getting Things Done, or ‘GTD’ as adoptees like to refer to it, is indeed a productivity book. But it’s not about ‘time management,’ to-do lists, or other seemingly similar equivalents. Through GTD, Allen attempts to help the reader not only with their professional lives, but their personal lives as well.

Getting…

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As mentioned in Crisis, Chaos, Panic, and Its Corollary, I had an opportunity to do some software consulting this past month.  In the prior article I discussed the lost productivity resulting from poor communication.

Here, I want to talk about organizational effectiveness as relates to having defined processes.

A…

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In response to my original article, Why Do IT Projects Slip, I received some responses suggesting that Agile was the solution.  Two thoughts cause me to speak to these responses. …

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A few friends are currently working on creating a new blog.  Within a week three asked me about using WordPress (WP) and which plugins (aka widgets) are worth considering.

A Short Word on WordPress .COM and WordPress .ORG

If you are considering the use of plugins, you have already made the decision to self-host your blog using WP. Some have wondered the… Continue