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Hiring is a Team Activity

2012-05-23T10:55:43+00:00

Hiring new people for a team is an important decision, but above all – it should be a joint one. Involve your team members in the hiring process to gain their commitment thus ensuring effective partnership and great teamwork.

Fluid IT – It’s about the Business

2012-05-16T09:38:41+00:00

If your business is often put into a position of making strategic decisions based on the inflexibility of IT solutions, try Fluid IT – a combination of best of breed technology strategy with the cloud operating model organization – and no IT decisions would determine where and how you do business again.

The Agile Project Manager – The Secret Sauce: Team Appreciation

2012-05-10T13:45:32+00:00

Solid agile project managers know how to enhance appreciation dynamics in a team. Setting up an “appreciative environment”, though, may call for additional focus on the related areas of positive psychology, strengths-based ‘movement’, and appreciative inquiry.

The Cost of Doing Nothing May Exceed the Cost of Changing

2012-05-09T09:56:38+00:00

Lack of technological progress or hardware failures will sooner or later result in expensive consequences. Replacing legacy systems is the only way out, but it shouldn`t necessarily be a painful process. Just choose the most suitable approach and learn how to mitigate risks and control costs.

Agile User Interface Design

2012-05-08T09:39:19+00:00

Learn how to design the user interface in Kanban and Scrum employing a user-centric, iterative, and collaborative process. Start with a high-level design sketch, take advantage of the team's collective creativity, and make your detailed design decisions step by step as part of the product backlog grooming work.

When Workloads Are Seriously Out of Whack: 11 Leadership Tips

2012-05-07T09:46:11+00:00

Does your virtual team have explicit norms about addressing workload imbalance? If not, here are eleven leadership tips to help you effectively apportion work among your team members and restore harmony.

Comparing Products - Rating Your Competition (Part 7)

2012-05-06T08:34:44+00:00

When you know how your product stacks up against competition, you can assess its effectiveness in solving the problems your customers will pay to solve, and make informed decisions about what your product needs to be. So how do you rate your product and its competitors?

Dealing with Unhappy Clients

2012-05-05T21:23:31+00:00

Buyer’s Guide: Disclosing Security Breaches in SMEs

2012-05-05T10:36:24+00:00

Coming changes in EU data protection regulations are unlikely to be finalised for a year or two, but given their predicted impact on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this time should be better spent ensuring the ability to comply and taking the necessary data protection measures.

Using Project Management Software to Manage Risk in the Project Plan

2012-05-05T08:54:25+00:00