I had a great experience while getting a shoe shine today. The woman who was shining my shoes asked me what do you do.  It was a longer version of the elevator speech that people talk about when you have the person of your dreams in the elevator.  The one difference is that

Welcome to the 13th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today we have the opportunity to chat with two people, Robert Shaffer of Robert H. Shaffer and Associates and Jim Hayward of Project X.  Jim and Bob have known each other for a while and when Jim and I st

Yesterday was a day of meetings at two ends of a spectrum.  In each scenario I met with someone who was in one or the other extreme. I was excited in a conversation with someone who was charged/energized based on the communication and excitement brought by having business and tec

Welcome to the 12th Episode of Coffee Conversations (now to be called CoffeeCAST) with Stephen Hayward of Project X. This week we are podcasting from the Starbucks at Bayview with Michael Ianni-Palarchio (MIP) where we decided to have a spontaneous CoffeeCAST on a variety of subjects.

Welcome to the 11th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today talking with me in the Starbucks in Mississauga I have Tim Dickey of Teradata.  In his review of some of the conversations and posts he noticed that a lot of our posts have been about building

Friday I had the good fortune to sit down with Donald Fowke of the New Management Network. Ostensibly it was a meeting set up by Jim to help me with some organizational development planning.  As we are having both the surprise of faster growth than expected and we want to make su

Welcome to the 10th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Join me in welcoming for the first time Mike Lemmon a Sr Project Manager, who is here to join me in a brief discussion on Project Management and more specifically some of the things you need to do a

I was reading the Financial Post newspaper on Saturday and ran across this great article Camisoles & Cabbages by Hollie Shaw.  It was great on coverage of the evolution of the Canadian leading retailers in their quest for more revenue and a defence against our friends from th

Welcome to the 9th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today I welcome back Jim to join me in a discussion on Metaphors and Technology.  In a post we did a couple of weeks ago and again this week, we endeavoured to use metaphors to help ground the variou

Welcome to the 8th Episode of Coffee Conversations with Stephen Hayward of Project X. This week we are podcasting from the Canadian Teradata User Group Meeting in Toronto Canada.  Graham and I talk about our different views having attended the Business and Technical streams talking ab