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Part Time Leadership

The last four months or so I have had the incredible pleasure of working with one of the most dedicated and hard working teams I have ever met. Unfortunately not full time. I’ve been trying to balance two assignments at the same time, one being as a project leader for the team and another as [...]

August 31st, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Open mind, Scrum | Comments are closed

Two world views

I keep coming back to Doug DeCarlo’s book eXtreme Project Management from time to time. It’s a little discussed book and in my oppinion it deserves to be on every project managers or Agile coach’s table. I have kept it with me as a source of inspiration for the last five years or so. Lately I [...]

August 31st, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Open mind, Scrum | Comments are closed
 
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