Category: Teamwork

I just spent all day in a seminar led by Kevin Cheng and Jane Jao, both currently at Yahoo! Local, on the subject of Creating Conceptual Comics: Storytelling and Techniques and I came away from it with some great ideas about how to communicate web interface and functionality ideas at the early, prototype stage of…

Tanya Raybourn (Pixelcharmer) points to Waterfall2006 in her Field Notes blog: This one, Waterfall 2006, sounds unmissable. After years of being disparaged by some in the software development community, the waterfall process is back with a vengeance. You

I know it’s probably just because I’m racing around to get a bunch of things done between trips (to Austin, Vancouver, and Utah), but this article (Be smarter at work, slack off) sounds like the perfect advice to me right about now.

David Seah’s Printable CEO Series incorporates some interesting paper-based tools for tracking and prioritizing your tasks during the day. His system assigns points to different types of tasks. Life-sustaining work, such as billing or signing new deals, earns 10 points. Work that provides concrete results that demonstrates your skills earns 5 points. Networking-related tasks are…

In his Noise Between Stations blog Victor Lombardi compares three models of organizational evolution and change–deteriorating, chaos, and periodic renewal–and finds the last the most healthy, writing: Periodic renewal requires the organizational discipline to stick with what works as well as the resolve to occasionally improve it, a careful balance. Just today Dan and I…