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The Do Over – Geof Lory

Growing up I played a lot of sports, both official and unofficial. I remember spending hours with my older brother in the front yard playing catch. We’d make up big league games, pretending we were throwing someone out at home, turning a double play, or catching a fly ball at the fence. It was great

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People Before Work – Geof Lory

My daughters, Jenna and Erika, were nine and eight when Beth and I were married and she came into our lives as wife and stepmother. We had dated for a couple years, so the family situation was not entirely new to any of us. However, the subtleties and nuances of everyday living together are different

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The Bozo Bit Dilemma – Geof Lory

Several years ago I worked with Jim McCarthy (formerly of Microsoft, now of McCarthy Technologies). Jim was one of the first pundits on the Microsoft Solutions Framework, Microsoft’s iterative approach to creating software. His book Dynamics of Software Development proposed more than 50 rules for developing great software on time. A big part of what I found valuable

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Say Yes to the Communication Mess – Geof Lory

If you’re like me, you spend a large percentage of your day in meetings or on conference calls. While this can be frustrating because it leaves little time to get real work done, it would be even more wasteful if all that time in conversation resulted in marginally useful information exchange, miscommunication and poor decision

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Creating Alignment – Geof Lory

In the last article, How Guided Team Autonomy Drives Successful Agile, I presented a simple matrix that highlighted how alignment enables autonomy. High alignment, whether through coercion or collaboration, practically guarantees everyone on the team will be pulling in the same direction and producing results. However, while short-term achievements might be gained with Theory X approaches,

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How Guided Team Autonomy Drives Successful Agile – Geof Lory

One of the things I talk with organizations about when they are considering agile is the way in which the culture supports teaming. Agile is intentionally light on processes and requires strong self-organizing teams to replace the externally governed processes of more traditional approaches. If you remove the processes without adding the teaming, you can

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Planning Horizons – Geof Lory

I recently read an article that suggested, “The ability to focus on a subject or a task and the ability to give something or someone your full attention are the new currencies of effectiveness.” Focus requires the ability to work on a single idea, a single task or a single project to completion. Focus requires

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Past Webinar – – AGILE BEYOND SCRUM

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Past Webinar – NEGOTIATIONS IN A PROJECT ENVIRONMENT

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Past webinar – STOP MANAGING START COACHING!

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