Organization Alignment seems like one of those ‘touchy feely’ things that most technical folks would rather not discuss but it’s actually quite relevant to success in todays technology and project driven organizations. Note: For books on organizational alignement, check out these amazon books: Books on Organizational Alignment. Organizational alignment is the practice of aligning an [...]
Business Dev: Small actions = big consequences
August 25, 2007 By 8 Comments
While out at dinner one evening this week I happened to be following a large SUV with an advertisement for a local insurance agent painted on it. I’d seen the SUV around town and had thought about calling to get a quote since my insurance was coming up for renewal…looks like their marketing strategy might [...]
Agile or Waterfall…does it matter?
August 24, 2007 By 8 Comments
First off…let me answer the question: Does it matter if I use Agile or Waterfall methodologies in my project? My opinion is no…it doesn’t matter…but there are a few caveats to that answer. Read on. In the software development world, there’s been a debate raging for quite a few years about the ‘best’ way to [...]
The best hiring advice I’ve heard
August 23, 2007 By 1 Comment
Chapter 13 of “What were they thinking” by Jeffrey Pfeffer has some excellent advice for hiring managers….the chapter, titled ‘Resumes Don’t Tell” has a subtitle that is the best piece of hiring advice I’ve heard in a long time: Pick people for what they can do, not what they may have done. I wish more [...]
Simplenomics: Carl Hubbell teachs a salesman to sell
August 22, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I’d like to point out Mike Sigers’ post titled “Can a Salesman Learn to Pitch?” on his Simplenomics blog. In this post, Mike recounts a story of a salesman who learned how to sell by studying baseball great Carl Hubbell, the inventor of the screwball. The main reason for my wanting to point this post [...]
Is Great Customer Service Enough?
August 20, 2007 By 4 Comments
Over the weekend, my wife and I went out to a restaurant for dinner to celebrate her birthday. This particular restaurant is very well known in town and is fairly pricey and is a place we’ve been to before. On the previous visit, the service was excellent and my wife’s dinner was great but mine [...]
Blog Changes
August 16, 2007 By 7 Comments
Billy McCafferty – Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development
August 16, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Billy McCafferty over at Devlicio.us just published a short blog post titled “Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development” that contains some excellent resources for people interested in learning more about Agile Software Development. He provides links to some great Agile & Lean resources as well as a zip file that contains a few of his [...]
Customer Service Defined
August 14, 2007 By 2 Comments
If you ever want to know what Customer Service truly is and is not, let your Air Conditioner fail and start calling AC Repair companies. Our AC went out yesterday. Of course, yesterday was the hottest day of the year here in Dallas. Thankfully, it stopped working in the evening instead of during the heat [...]
Successful Technology Implementations
August 14, 2007 By 2 Comments
I recently turned a six month consulting project into a 1 month project…and I couldn’t be happier. The client saved ~$1.5 million and they were able to turn around ‘failed’ software implementation. Why I’m telling this story Before I get into the back-story, I want to share the reasons for telling the story. It isn’t [...]
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