These are my personal goals for the next 3 and 12 months. Business goals for the quarter are in this post. I’ll measure performance and document lessons learned at the end of the quarter. Why do I set goals? I’ve learned I accomplish my biggest achievements after I find purpose and create a plan. As […]
These are my personal goals for the next 3 and 12 months. Business goals are in last week’s post. At the end of the quarter I’ll assess progress. My 2019 2nd Quarter Targets (and confidence level) 1. Objective: Be Fit Key Result: Be well Measures: 100% InsideTracker biomarkers optimized (low) I feel well (medium) Stay in the […]
Every quarter I set new personal and business goals for the next 3 and 12 months. These are personal goals. Business goals are in next week’s post. See more about my goal setting approach at the bottom of this post. I shared last quarter’s accomplishments 2 and 3 weeks ago. My 2019 1Q 3 Month […]
Congratulations, you’re a project manager! The investment team has already set the budget, schedule, and scope of your product development project. The executive staff assembled the project team. Like any catastrophic failure, errors have already been made by multiple parties, well in advance of the events that will ultimately expose the failure. Now, they will watch and […]
The lead software developer on my team came by my desk to tell me she needed to tell me something. She wanted to talk in private, in a conference room, apparently due to the sensitive nature of the message. Once in the small room, she broke the news. “We’re screwed. The team and I have […]
There I was at work, with a client who wanted to add three staff members to my project team. Groupthink in my organization enabled a situation where that wasn’t going to happen, and that was acceptable. My option was to tell my client it was impossible: they couldn’t take part on this important project. I […]
Hidden Figures is a great film, full of the drama and suspense of a large information technology project (are there any others on the subject?). Then Vs. Now While that may sound a bit unbelievable, the film is a cool perspective on the similarities between large information technology projects 50 years ago and today. This article further […]
