by Steve Parker | Nov 17, 2020 | Agile, Featured, Productivity Hacks, project management
There are lots of ways to make your company more successful than it already is – from new marketing solutions to investing in new technologies – but one of the best and most effective ideas is working on your staff’s productivity. Making sure every single one of your...
by Kiron Bondale | Nov 15, 2020 | Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, project management, Psychological Safety, team building
Harvard Business Review published an article by Sabina Nawaz this week on some challenges managers face when they delegate work to their staff. The gaps identified with team members being able to perform the tasks successfully included a lack of critical thinking, a...
by Stefan Wolpers | Nov 13, 2020 | News
TL; DR: Decision Making, Technical Debt Explained — Food for Agile Thought #268 Welcome to the 268th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 28,041 peers. This week, we delve into the dirty secrets of decision making; we refresh our memory...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Nov 13, 2020 | interview, Skills, This article contains affiliate links.
Today I’m interviewing Mark Woeppel, author of Visual Project Management. But what is visual project management? I caught up with Mark so that he could explain that interesting title and talk more about the book. Mark, what is visual project management? Visual Project...
by Frank Miller | Nov 11, 2020 | android, Apps, Featured, iPhone apps, Lists, News App, Productivity Apps
The number of people using news apps totaled over 114 million users in 2020, which is a 15% increase from previous years. This digital news consumption saw a massive increase amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. It is also understandable with the busy lives of...
by Steve Parker | Nov 11, 2020 | Featured, Lists, Productivity Tools
Do you hear the sound of the countdown? Yeah, that’s us. We’ve already started counting down the days till the beginning of Cyber Week, everyone’s favorite end-of-Autumn shopping holiday. Just as the last leaves are falling off the trees, so do prices. So it’s right...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Nov 11, 2020 | Books, Coaching, This article contains affiliate links.
The Project Management Coaching Workbook by Susanne Madsen is a book about how to operate with a coaching leadership style in a project environment. “It is not your ability to manage tasks and resources that will set you apart,” writes Susanne Madsen in The Project...
by Steve Parker | Nov 11, 2020 | Agile, Featured, Productivity Hacks, Tips
As we shift from thinking of remote meetings as a blip on the radar to a new fixture in our work lives, the time has come to address the elephant in the room: an audio and video connection aren’t enough. Video calls, often facilitated by Zoom, have become a staple of...
by Frank Miller | Nov 9, 2020 | Browsers, Content SEO, Marketing, SEO, Web Services
How does a search engine like Google or Bing decide whether your article is worthy of being showcased in search results? The answer is based on a series of factors and you need to get your SEO Tactics right to feature on top SERP. SEO Tactics in 2020 require you to...
by Frank Miller | Nov 9, 2020 | Business, Business Marketing, Business Tips, Fitness and Motivation
The year 2020 has been one for the record books. Unfortunately, none of the reasons for this are positive. The year started with Australian bushfires that prompted cities to evacuate while tens of millions of acres burned. A global pandemic spread, just as deadly as...
