Developer shortage? Look Within
The answer to most companies’ developer shortages is likely to look within, and make those developers more productive.
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Yes, the Open Office Is Terrible
We measured all types of individual work environments, and what we’ve found is that if you solve for design, noise, and access to people and resources, they perform equally, and one is essentially not better than the other.
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Not A HIT
The healthcare industry may be experiencing an ongoing productivity paradox, mirroring earlier patterns in manufacturing and other industrial sectors.
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Clean Out The Queep
The Air Force has revoked more than 226 Air Force instructions deemed unnecessary or outdated over the past year as part of its ongoing effort to get rid of so-called “queep.”
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Lessons Learned From 800 Million Tweets
At 6 am, analytical thinking was shown to peak. However, in the evenings and nights this thinking style changed to a more emotional and existential one.
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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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Committees Producing Deep Wisdom
If one assumes that randomness constitutes deep wisdom.
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What Value Do You Bring To Your Project?
According to [Ashlee] Vance, the assistant, Mary Beth Brown, asked Musk for a significant raise after she’d been working with him for 12 years. In response, Musk told Brown to take two weeks off, during which he would assume her responsibilities and see if she...
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Maintaining Peace While Things Fall Apart
A lot of what you saw in America and you see overseas is, “I want a change.” They want a wrecking ball brought to these governments. A lot of us are sympathetic with that. We want to see something different. We want things to be...
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Purpose Has Become Incredibly Important
What we learned is that young people want to do good as well as do well. They really do want to come to work thinking that they’re going to do something that matters.
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The Rapid Adoption Of Change — Takes Time
I found a great insight, that doesn’t show up that often, in the following article in my research archives. Robert Holler, the CEO of VersionOne (an Agile vendor) was quoted: “I think there might have been this anticipation five years ago that agile would take...
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Of Bicycles And Kanban
Keeping the bike in motion, just like the economy or a project, is what gives us the ability to work our way out of any problem.
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Sleep On It
Short periods of work followed by sleep reinforcement allow people to enhance their cognitive efficacy.
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Should Every Minute Of Your Day Be Filled With Activity?
It seems to be an axiom of modern projects that for every project team member, every minute of every day should be filled with assigned tasks. I know project managers who boast of loading themselves and their subordinates with way more than 100% of available...
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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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