You Didn’t See The Real Problem
If you don’t find the solution, it’s because you didn’t see the real problem.
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It’s Fair. We Have To Fix Someone Else’s Problems
It’s not fair. When we screw up, it’s fair, we have to fix it. But it feels less fair when we have to fix someone’s else’s problems.
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Let Others Do the Work
It was a scrum. No, not the agile software method, but a bunch of people all racing after the current big defect found in the product. It was a badge of merit to be the first to figure out the defect and to report on its fix. My boss expected me to jump into this competition of egos when these problems happened.
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Being Too Simple Can Be A Good Thing
Yet Abt, on behalf of Carthage College, in Kenosha, Wis., has returns that beat Harvard ’s $37 billion endowment and most others. In the 10 years through the most recent college fiscal year, ended on June 30, 2017, the former beer company executive racked up...
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Teams That Do Not Interact As Much Perform Better
Face-to-face interactions, as measured by the sociometric badges, emerged as a strong negative predictor of success in the competition.
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Change The Mindset And Cause A Revolution
Sometimes doing the opposite works better than doing the obvious.
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Avoiding A Bad Launch
The 2.6 billion-rouble ($45 million) satellite — the Meteor M — was launched last month from Vostochny, with Roscosmos losing contact with it shortly after. It then emerged that the rocket carrying the satellite had been programmed with the wrong coordinates, and had instead been...
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Use Your Dark Data
In the same way that dark matter is an unseen but very large part of the cosmos , dark data represents the unseen but very large part of the data that most corporations collect and store.
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Good Management Won’t Save A Poor Product
We’ve delivered some pretty unexciting products -- on time and with good to great quality -- but good project management and engineering won’t turn a mediocre idea into a winner.
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Puttting Management On Autopilot
“Tesla is consistently introducing enhancements proven over millions of miles of internal testing to ensure that drivers supported by Autopilot remain safer than those operating without assistance,” the company said in a July 14 response. “We will continue to develop, validate, and release those enhancements...
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Productivity Lessons Learned From The 113th US Congress
Activity was what was important, it seemed, not productivity nor effectiveness. We can always tell the COO, CQO and CEO what a great focus we had on quality!
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Trust Me You Don’t Really Need All That Data
He’s skeptical. Most customers don't really need to analyze years of data.
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Lessons We’ll Learn From The Failed Oregon Healthcare Website
The lawsuit filed against Oracle by the Attorney General of Oregon is a desperate attempt to deflect blame for their failures to manage a complex IT project.
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Our Desire To Help Often Gets In The Way Of Getting Things Done
He was just sure that if we asked more questions and understood each and every defect we would eliminate the backlog of defects. It never happened.
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Forgetting The Past
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
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