The other day, we were thinking back to our first custom SDK project. I thought it might be interesting to share how it started. And, as with many things it started with a client coming to us with a problem… The Problem: We have been engaged to develop a dashboard for a client. One o
Just before Halloween I had the opportunity to travel down to Tysons Corner, Virginia and attend the Partner Sales Academy at MicroStrategy headquarters. As a MicroStrategy Partner, we not only have the opportunity to promote and work with a best in class BI tool, we also get to parti
I was chatting with a friend recently about a project she is on that she described in her own words as a ‘master disaster’ – timelines in jeopardy, cost overruns, unrealistic expectations, and frustrated team. I thought back to my own experiences and research and my first
Last week we talked about Project Plans and the SDLC and touched on the waterfall model of project plans. In case you missed the first post you can read it here. This week we will talk about other project plan models… The fountain model recognizes that although some activities c
As we all know every project starts with a plan. It is crucial to have a roadmap to guide you on any endeavour that you plan to undertake. As it is said, if you don’t have a plan then you plan to fail. Of course, we need to have a plan that depicts your objectives and incorporates
Many people have criticized business and engineering schools for not teaching any courses on how to wins friends and influence people. Tom Peters and Dale Carnegie come to mind. However the key success factor for people to be successful in taking a leadership role is their abil
When Dan Pink asked Tom Peters what was the most important principle from his book 'In Search of Excellence', he said without hesitation "A Bias for Action." Dan Pink thens asked what was the second of the eight and after a long pause he said "A Bias for
From a book called "Instant Influence" I extracted the following six questions: Why might you change? (for yourself why might I change?) How ready are you to change – on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 means "not ready at all" and 10 meands "to
Do you have a delighted customer or client? I bet you are in demand. Harvey Gellman, my mentor and business partner, had a saying "Give the client ten percent more than they expect." Don't just meet their expectations but exceed them. That is really
I realized my scope blog did not include much content because I clearly have no simple solution because it is not a simple problem. see Scope Creep and Other horrors In my cottage example of adding a bathroom that turned into a new wing, I would like to explore possible solution