INSIGHTS.

As leaders facing the challenge of building teams, we have 3 options: Building a team through a common crisis. Building a team through a common enemy. Building a team through a common cause.   Common Crisis We have all seen the power of people working in an emergency, setting aside interpersona Read More

In my first I.T. job I worked for Ray Stride at Microknowlogy. He once asked me "what does Microknowlogy owe you?" I responded with a laundry list that included career guidance and opportunities... and he gently cut me off with "We owe you a regular check and a safe working environment.", continuing Read More

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them." ― Epictetus, Enchiridion A few years ago, I spent some time learning about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with a wonderful psychologist in Menlo Park. She helped me work out some things, one of which is that our inner voi Read More

I have had my PMP certification for about 10 years now. One of the fundamentals is a pledge of allegiance of the triple constraint, that Schedule, Cost and Quality are your three constraints that need to be managed. We are further told that if the client/project sponsor holds onto 2 of those contro Read More

My team builds software for a living. We are really good at it and have worked together for many years. Recently I wanted to make some changes to our timesheet application to handle our project hierarchy. Here is how I went about it: Having access to the database diagram I whipped up an ERD (enterp Read More