Do you know your Sanity Metrics from your Vanity Metrics?
Notice that some people report what makes them look good, rather than what is important for business?
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Aim Before You Shoot: Goal-Setting Strategies to Ensure a Project’s Success
In business project management, goals are one of the most written and talked about tools because they often determine the success of the effort
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Respecting the Chain of Command – Like a Pro
Chain of command is an important tool in the hierarchy of a business and one that should be respected by employees
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Here’s How To Successfully Work With People Long Distance
Creating the right impression with a customer is something all freelancers worry about, especially if business is done long-distance. So much information is lost when we transact over the ether, which makes our communication skills that much more important and (even more nowadays) which tools we use to communicate with.
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The IT-Business Divide – Still Wide and Still Alive?
Do you still sense a big gap between the IT and Business?What do you think should be done about it?There is still quite a big gap in my opinion, and although it is reducing over time, there is still a perception of IT that it is all about tape-reels, basement rooms and fan-fold print outs!
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How To Sell SOA to Your Business
To most people outside of IT, SOA is really dull. I hear business people talk about it as ‘hype’ and an ‘excuse’ to delay work. Well that might be true in some cases. But I think it is more likely because of a lack of understanding and appreciation of the potential upside.I recently wrote about
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