Discovery De-Mystified

In " The Myth of Discovery " Ted Neward complains that the software industry is unwilling to look beyond its bounds for new ideas and innovation ... like a mis-understanding of Lean/Agile principals which focus on building the quality ... : Prejudices Can Alter Team Work and Agile Bonobos ; and the article: " Who Do You Trust ?" Alistair [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 02:11:14

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Team Meltdown

(This article is a modified version of something I give to student teams that will be working together for an extended period of time.) ... Games are intensely personal processes, even if they involve a hundred people. You can’t spend ... to team meltdown. Here’s a couple moments from my memory:An art team mutiny - they didn’t show [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 14:59:16

Practice Preparation is Deliberate

The folks at OpenEducation.net informed me of a couple articles recently written about deliberate practice, ... and challenging work second to second -- we provide leadership and team building opportunities for the players ... of players or students in his or her classroom. Some students have no experience with the topics [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 19:15:48

Why Training Investment is a Failure to Most Organizations

Reading a recent Wall Street Journal article I was flabbergasted to learn of organizations that are recently increasing the amount of leadership ... are attempting work on both leadership and team building skills. With careful analysis of both value ... I have watched organizations attempt team building. I enjoy seeking an organization try to mend [more...]

Date: 2009-02-19 16:10:11

New Adobe XD INSPIRE Publication

Not sure when this was announced, but following a tweet from Rich Tretola ( @richtretola ), I found Adobe INSPIRE, described as “a publication from the Adobe Experience Design team.” It’ ... is working on.  The topics are similar to the RIA Buzz newsletter that they send out. One article to check [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 16:04:38

Coaching Skills Training: How Can We Make A Case For Coaching (Two)?

By Matt Somers This article - a follow on from previous pieces - continues the examination of the business case for coaching and helps those ... in one building building, it is now typical to find staff dispersed across a number of locations. This may mean ... of the world. You may have members of your team who have an entirely different work pattern to [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 00:02:51

Building a Contemporary Immigrant Work Force

By Geoffrey Cook, MMNS The New York City Taxi Union Berkeley–In the last two issues, this newspaper published articles on Palestine ( ... has been thoughtfully amassing his ruling team, but there have been two controversial selections.  The first is Rahm [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 17:47:44

Westland Green Team Update

Copyright © 2009 jim . Visit the original article at http://primaryconcern.org/?p=1380 . Last night Syndie and I attended a committee meeting for the City of Westland’s Green Team ... the last year. Below I will put a recap of what is coming up. I personally have been working [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 15:05:38

Using Polygonal CSS for imageless tooltips and more

The Filament Group has written up a great article on using polygonal CSS for image free tooltips with pointers ... on polygons and shows how you can build them: Polygonal CSS works by setting an element's width ... gives you: The team then takes us from here to a full tooltip example. [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 08:57:45

The New ROI -- Listen, Learn, Adapt: Return on Insight - Does it work for nonprofits?

Photo by Jeff Pulver David Armano has an article on BusinessWeek called "The New Focus Group: The Collective" ... of mining the data for insights is akin to anthropology and that the team should be "digital ... ?" 3. Are you evaluating current processes and updating them as needed? 4. Are you building a culture in which [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 21:59:24

How Far is Glory Out of Reach for St. John’s

Two articles on St. John’s place in the Big East hierarchy. They are solid reads ... is doing decently - and an article about how far the Red Storm is from being a credible team: SNY.tv ... can all coach," Tranghese said. "That’s not the issue. It’s a matter of working hard and recruiting [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 16:14:48

EA cancels Command & Conquer: Tiberium

This article has been published at RLSLOG.net - visit our site for full content ... for the PC and Xbox 360. “EA has suspended work on Tiberium effective immediately,” corporate ... quality standards set by the team and by the EA Games Label. A lower-quality game is not in the best [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 10:37:01

Conspiracy of the Lemmings: Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis; Part II

Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie’s Notebook By Jim Simpson Note: I am indebted to the incredible efforts of many bloggers, who did the yeoman’s work of ferreting out many of the hard-to-find facts in this article. I particularly want to thank David Horowitz and his Discover the Networks team, Trevor Loudon of New Zeal [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 14:25:21

Why it is Important that Software Projects Fail

This week, a special presentation by Dr Anthony Berglas. (The original post of this article is here. This is reproduced with the author's permission.) ... with abandoned structures that cannot be made to work; bridge building is almost always successful ... to budget. But when a large team of programers sets out to develop software it is very uncertain [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 23:26:43

It’s All About Building Trust

Article of Mark Hordes at Managementsite.com Sometimes “Hard Lessons” are The Best Teacher April 17th, 20004 will be a day I will long remember ... else you mentioned?” “We just seem to like them more, they bonded better with our team, had better ... of the day, I learned a very important lesson about working with clients, It’s all about building [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 09:07:20

Osi: The last 20 is the toughest

Interesting article on Osi Umenyiora on the Giants' website. The main question everyone should have for Osi is: How's the knee? He answers it. “They (the team’s medical staff) are saying it is at about 80 percent,” Umenyiora said. “ ... to work on agility. He also said he expects to be at full-speed for the team's June minicamp [more...]

Date: 2009-02-24 17:30:30

Location Based Games Will Rock Your World

This article was written by Phil Black: Android enthusiast and Phandroid reader. It’s a normal day as Chandler walks down the street. BZZZZZZZZ… ... for, I just want to see what they can do! NavBall The game? 11 players each team, 2 teams total ... on your phone. Shoot the ball in the net. Building or car in the way? Work around it. You have to work [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 05:12:19

Article | Guy Gavriel Kay wades into the ‘Martin-itis’ debate

Leave it to Guy Gavriel Kay to talk some sense. In a recent article published by The Globe and Mail , Kay addresses the subject of book delays, ... and football games (and his favourite team) is that Martin has told them. On his blog ... worth debating whether an author engaged in a multivolume work that readers have bought [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 15:13:56

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