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Topics:

Management

 

 

Topic Title / Description Publication(s) Year
Management At What Cost? What are the trades-offs between quality and urgency? STQE (?) 2001
Management Beyond Belief. How do our mental models effect our ability to solve problems? STQE (?) 2001
Management Climbing the Learning Curve. Methods to support practice and integration of new skills.  Insights
Stickyminds.com
2002
Management Communicating the Big Picture.  Stickyminds.com 2004
Management A Defining Moment. A rumination on management code words STQE (?) 2002
Management Designing Useful Metrics  STQE (?) 2000
Management Entrust to Another insights 2006
Management Facing Up to the Truth  STQE (?)  
Management Five New Years Resolutions for Managers ComputerWorld.com 2004
Management Hiring for a Collaborative Team.  Computerworld.com 2004
Management How to Talk about Work Performance: A Feedback Primer. The basics for providing effective feedback about work performance. CrossTalk 2003
Management Is Your Boss a Bully?  Stickyminds.com 2004
Management Manager Heal Thyself. What is the managers role in implementing development process improvements? Cutter IT Journal  Oct 2001
Management (Management) Process Improvement. What can we do to improve our own management processes? STQE (?) 2001
Management Modeling Organizational Change.     
Management No More Middleman. Better Software 2005
Management Pennywise. The go-go days of the 90s are gone, and with them extravagant hiring budgets. Most companies are being more conservative in making offers to candidates. If you’re working on a tight hiring budget, how can you make the most of your hiring power? Stickyminds.com 2003
Management Personal Observation Process  Software Development  
Management Preparing for a Management Role. The Cutter Email Advisor 2002
Management Rating Scheme, Disrupted Team.  Better Software. 2004
Management A Real Go-Getter. Should you promise the moon?  STQE (?) 2003
Management Real-Time Feedback. Some managers believe that a yearly review is the time to give feedback. But there's a price to pay for waiting to communicate about performance.  Computerworld.com 2003
Management The Secret Ingredients of High Morale. Recognition and rewards are the keys, right? Not so, according to a group of experts (a software team). Stickyminds.com 2003
Management Self-Facilitation Skills for Teams.  Agile Times. 2004
Management Should a Manager Know a Language? The definitive answer to the often asked question. STQE (?) 2002
Management Skills are Only Half the Equation for Success.  Stickyminds.com 2004
Management Talk, Talk, Talk.  Stickyminds.com 2004
Management Thinking About Thinking  STQE (?)  
Management What's Your IQ? Much of our work involves gaining the cooperation of others. Listen in on two conversations to see how you can improve your IQ (influence quotient).  Stickyminds.com 2003
Management What Your Weekly Meetings Aren't Telling You.  Better Software. 2004
Management Win-Win Delegation.  Stickyminds.com 2004
Management You're Still Needed. How is life different for managers when the organization adopts Agile methods? Co-authored with Diana Larsen Software Development 2004

STQE = Software Testing and Quality Engineering 

 

 

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