Are you leading your team to greater recognition, or keeping them (and yourself) in obscurity? My apologies for this somewhat rhetorical question. But the facts on this are pretty simple. Build a name for yourself and suddenly your team gains gobs of new attention. Avoid the spotlight and you and your team remain in IT […]
In last week’s countdown piece I noted how the holidays take a big bite out of the remaining productive time in the year. Now here we are. We have a holiday two days away and everything’s slowed down. You are having a hard time wrangling the support and feedback you need to get anything done. […]
Hats off to PWC for sponsoring a very serious study worth contributing to… As I’ve said many times- women are both underrepresented and underappreciated in IT. PWC’s new study aims to fix that by creating a clearer picture of women’s experiences in the workforce (and what we can do to help them develop their careers). […]
Here we are in the second week of November, which leaves about six weeks to wrap up our commitments, right? Wrong. Yes, I know what the calendar says, but just counting lines on the calendar won’t take into account the naturally occurring breaks (make that bites) that are going to be taken out by the […]
We’ve all been there. The project manager is complaining about the consultants. The stakeholders are dissatisfied with the project manager. The software vendor has “concerns” over the likelihood of the team making its deadline. And the project update meetings go off-track in minutes. Net, net: the situation is bad and you have to get involved. […]
