EB
Aug 25, 2007
Business Dev: Small actions = big consequences

While out at dinner one evening this week I happened to be following a large SUV with an advertisement for a local insurance agent painted on it. I'd seen

EB
Aug 24, 2007
Agile or Waterfall…does it matter?

First off...let me answer the question: Does it matter if I use Agile or Waterfall methodologies in my project? My opinion is no...it doesn't matter...but

EB
Aug 23, 2007
The best hiring advice I’ve heard

Chapter 13 of "What were they thinking" by Jeffrey Pfeffer has some excellent advice for hiring managers....the chapter, titled 'Resumes Don't Tell" has a

EB
Aug 22, 2007
Simplenomics: Carl Hubbell teachs a salesman to sell

I'd like to point out Mike Sigers' post titled "Can a Salesman Learn to Pitch?" on his Simplenomics blog. In this post, Mike recounts a story of a

EB
Aug 20, 2007
Is Great Customer Service Enough?

Over the weekend, my wife and I went out to a restaurant for dinner to celebrate her birthday. This particular restaurant is very well known in town and

EB
Aug 16, 2007
Blog Changes

I will be making a few minor changes to this blog. The domain name is changing and I am thinking of changing the name of the blog...I have setup a poll

EB
Aug 16, 2007
Billy McCafferty – Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development

Billy McCafferty over at Devlicio.us just published a short blog post titled "Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development" that contains some excellent

EB
Aug 14, 2007
Customer Service Defined

If you ever want to know what Customer Service truly is and is not, let your Air Conditioner fail and start calling AC Repair companies. Our AC went out

EB
Aug 14, 2007
Successful Technology Implementations

I recently turned a six month consulting project into a 1 month project...and I couldn't be happier. The client saved ~$1.5 million and they were able to

EB
Aug 12, 2007
Great post on Product Management

Steve Neiderhauser has a very good post titled "Product Management through Options" that discusses the need to use options when designing new products. An

EB
Aug 10, 2007
Moving from Gmail to FuseMail

I finally got fed up with a very small 'feature' in Gmail and moved to FuseMail today. The 'feature' is the 'On Behalf of' feature that shows email

EB
Aug 10, 2007
Tridenta on the Project Management “Iron Triangle”

Tridenta is a Dallas based IT consulting company who recently started a blog....and so far, it looks like they've started out on the right foot. I've been

EB
Aug 9, 2007
Interviewing Tips for Interviewers

There are a lot of 'experts' and 'how to guides' giving tips on interviewing and how to interview candidates for a position. Most of these tips are

EB
Aug 7, 2007
Agile Project Management and Product Strategy – A Case Study

Due to the length of this post, I've created a PDF version for those that would like to download it and/or print it out. Click here for the PDF version of

EB
Aug 7, 2007
I’ve been tagged…8 Random Facts

Jim Stroup of "Managing Leadership" tagged me recently in his post titled "Random Day 1"...guess its time to jump in with some random facts. I haven't

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