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Starting Meetings Effectively

As a habit, do you start a meeting with questions, a speech or silent?

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Adopting One Week Iterations

Team decided to move to one week iterations. Progress.

Agile AgileTeamwork
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Empowering Cross Functional Teams

Our company is now committed to forming cross functional teams empowered to set and achieve goals.

Culture cross functional teamsempowerment
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Excited for Collaboration Ahead

Thank you EngagingNewsProject. I enjoyed the workshop and look forward to the collaboration.

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The Privilege of Serving Writers

A theme of my career is the privilege of working with and in the service of writers.

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Enhancing Project Cycles Through Collaboration

Our project cycles improve outward like ripples: from quality engineering to collaborative design, to collaboration with stakeholders.

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Building a Collaborative Team at The Daily Beast

My role at The Daily Beast now includes product, design, and user experience. My goal is to build a collaborative, cross-functional team.

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Strategic Changes as CTO

60+ days as a CTO. Strategic changes underway. Success this week measured by obstacles removed vs acknowledged.

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Embracing Simplicity in Specifications

Promise to self: do not solve specification ambiguity with complicated code. Drive clarity and simplicity back into the business.

Leadership simplicityclarity
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Continuous Integration and Collaboration Insights

Day 50. Pairing happening. Node app with continuous integration under way. Commitment to testing. Examples of collaboration with other groups.

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The Art of App Rewriting

There’s an art to rewriting an app without halting to do a “rewrite project”. A messy, tactile art. Like finger paints.

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Avoid Customizing Non-Competitive Systems

Don’t customize systems that provide no competitive advantage because you will not invest adequately to maintain them.

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