Get Your Own Way

by Charl Dreyer on July 14, 2009 · 0 comments

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If you had to say to your Team that fewer than 8 out of 100 people know the difference between a search engine and a browser, would they believe you? Would it make a difference to how you built software? You know, those geeky bits that express technical prowess, but user ignorance?

“How do you get your boss to approve something, the customer service people to understand the pain a system is causing, or the folks in engineering to see things your way?” asks Seth Godin in a recent blog. [click to continue…]

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Scott Adams Works Upstairs

by Charl Dreyer on July 13, 2009 · 0 comments

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Have you ever wondered whether that guy upstairs is Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert? I certainly have. He seems to have the inside track on the same insane bureaucracy that we have to deal with every day. Like this:

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7 Gripes Business Has Against IT

by Charl DreyerJune 9, 2009 Individuals and Interactions
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Implementing Agile processes in traditional organizations will struggle, if not fail, unless the perceptions Business has of IT’s slow delivery are dealt one by one.

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12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

by Charl DreyerMay 28, 2009 Must Reads
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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, by Dr John Medina is a great read; it’s an honest, entertaining, and well-written book based on years of research into the interesting subject of how the brain works. Yet Medina is humble enough to admit that there are many things he and his colleagues still don’t know about the brain. To my mind, this gives the book a lot of credibility.

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