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	<description>Sanity Check for the IT Manager</description>
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		<title>Are You Saying Thank You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>German Flores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We get caught-up and jump from one thing to the next and often forget to acknowledge and recognize the efforts others have to go through.
When do say thank you? When it&#39;s deserved. Only say thank you when you mean it, if it&#39;s not sincere your being dishonest to the person your saying thank you to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UX &#8211; Don&#8217;t Ask, Watch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>German Flores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Understand your users and then ignore them&#34;Robert Hoekman Jr.
This is a profound statement and without context it could anybody fired. When looking at user experience and usability you should perform a usability study. A component of a usability study is a user and task analysis. In this user and task analysis users are identified, along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Project Managers Need To Be Confident</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>German Flores</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Management Techniques]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the qualities of a project manager is confidence. Successful project managers let their team know that they are confident in the course taken. Confidence is not about lying to your team. If a project is going to fail, the best course is to acknowledge the difficulties, rally around the team, come-up with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seth&#8217;s Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.theblueshirt.org/blog/2009/11/seths-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>German Flores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you don&#8217;t get someone to switch because you&#8217;re cheaper than Walmart. You don&#8217;t get someone to switch because you serve bigger portions than the big-portion steakhouse down the street. You don&#8217;t get someone to switch because your hospital is more famous than the Mayo Clinic.
via Seth&#8217;s Blog.

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		<title>links for 2009-11-13</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>German Flores</dc:creator>
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Choosing Authority Levels for Team Members &#8211; NOOP.NL
&#34;    * Level 1: Tell: You make decisions and announce them to your people. (This is actually not empowerment at all.)
    * Level 2: Sell: You make decisions, but you attempt to gain commitment from workers by “selling” your idea to them.
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		<title>links for 2009-11-10</title>
		<link>http://www.theblueshirt.org/blog/2009/11/links-for-2009-11-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>German Flores</dc:creator>
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How Do We Define Product Owners &#124; enthiosys agile product management
1. The world calls them product managers. When software companies build new product teams, they assign a product manager. Job boards advertise product management openings. Recruiters troll for them. Companies are not ambiguous about needing development managers and QA leads, nor are they fuzzy about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People Value</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>German Flores</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The people we value most, are the people who stand up and say &#8216;I&#8217;ve made a mistake&#8217;&#8221;, Gary Baker. Failing fast is good in #agile. #ciohio
Twitter / Pillar Technology: &#8220;The people we value most, &#8230;.

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		<title>links for 2009-11-03</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>German Flores</dc:creator>
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The Opposite of Waterfall is Pond – A Metaphor for Agile &#124; Agile Blog: Scaling Software Agility
Interesting take: &#34;If Agile is the opposite of Waterfall, then I think it should be called Pond. Yes, Pond.&#34;



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		<title>links for 2009-10-29</title>
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		<comments>http://www.theblueshirt.org/blog/2009/10/links-for-2009-10-29/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>German Flores</dc:creator>
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What is the most common (unsolved) problem in IT project management? &#124; LinkedIn Answers &#124; LinkedIn
Interesting discussion by project managers. &#34;As the saying goes, you can&#039;t improve what you can&#039;t measure.&#34;
&#34;Poor up-front planning
If you&#039;re going to be good at project management, you have to understand that the UP-FRONT PLANNING process has value. You need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>links for 2009-10-17</title>
		<link>http://www.theblueshirt.org/blog/2009/10/links-for-2009-10-17/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theblueshirt.org/blog/2009/10/links-for-2009-10-17/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>German Flores</dc:creator>
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Product Managers in Startups: What&#039;s their Role?
Some insight to the role of the product manager. In some organizations the product manager can be in the business unit, they can also be in the IT/IS unit.
(tags: productmanagement)



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