Category: work ethic
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Building In-House Innovation Teams: When to Stop Innovating and Start Scaling
In parts I and II of this series I discussed the qualities that make up successful in-house innovation teams and…
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The Human Cannonball – A Story of Untested Assumptions
In May of 1995 I graduated from James Madison University with my bachelor’s degree. It was a Saturday. On Sunday…
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Building In-House Innovation Teams: Transparency
In the first post of the series I discussed the basic building blocks of a successful in-house innovation team: small,…
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Designing with remote teams
I will be speaking on working and designing with distributed teams at this year’s IA Summit in Baltimore, MD. As…
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Take that meeting…
“I don’t really use LinkedIn or Twitter.” “I don’t go to meetups.” “I don’t really have time to meet people.”…
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What The Karate Kid Can Teach Us About Agile and UX
In the Karate Kid (the first one, aka the good one) the seemingly innocuous Mr. Miyagi takes on wayward Daniel-san…
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Adding Game Mechanics To Agile Processes Part 2: Limiting In-Flight Cards
In the second part of this two-part series on adding game mechanics to Agile (read Part 1) processes, I want…
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Adding Game Mechanics to Agile Processes Part 1: Card Aging
Seems like everybody wants to gamify everything these days. Far be it for me to not jump on this bandwagon…
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Rock bands and Startups
For a good portion of the 90’s and early 00’s I was a touring musician. There were 5 or 6…
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Why I spent my weekend talking Agile and User Experience
“What are you going to do this weekend?” “I’m going to hang out in the Financial District with a bunch…