Category Archives: Strategy & Planning

Finding a Strategy for Social Media

Posted September 25, 2009 - By Jeff Kramer | Comments Off

For businesses, it has become increasingly popular to dabble in online social networks, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and the like. Typically admission to these networks and the dearth of functionality they offer is free, so at first glance it seems ...

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Building Web Presence | A Recipe

Posted July 23, 2009 - By Shawn Cheatham | Comments Off

Taken individually, carving out a web presence is pretty straight forward but it can be a little daunting to figure out how to get the most bang for your buck. Here's our quick-fire recipe for building web presence;

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CMMI or Agile: Why Not Embrace Both!

Posted March 12, 2009 - By Shawn Cheatham | 3 Comments

Recently I came across an interesting article from SEI at Carnegie Mellon. Having spent a significant amount of time with companies using CMM, ISO, CMMI, Agile etc. at various levels of the organization it’s rather intriguing to consider weaving these ...

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I’m Going to RailsConf 2009!

Posted March 11, 2009 - By Shawn Cheatham | 2 Comments

It's been nearly a year since I first dipped a toe into the Ruby on Rails community. What started as vague curiosity has exploded into full-on fascination with all things RoR, so it was that I decided to attend RailsConf.

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What’s on the Rubis Reading List?

Posted February 27, 2009 - By Shawn Cheatham | Comments Off

The other day a colleague asked, 'in addition to being a Certified Scrum Product Owner, what is it that you're reading'. It was somewhat difficult to answer because in any given week I've got my head buried in a stack of books, blogs and articles but here's ...

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Strategic Project Planning

Posted February 10, 2009 - By Shawn Cheatham | 1 Comment

All too often there comes a point in a project that we begin to wonder, "Where are we going?" Regardless of size of the project there seems to be a tendency to reach a point of uncertainty in the overall direction of the project. The disconnect permeates ...

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Scrum Product Owner Certification

Posted January 08, 2009 - By Shawn Cheatham | 1 Comment

Although at times a bit chaotic, we simulated using Scrum in an end-to-end project using balloons, string, paper-clips and tape which provided a great experiential learning environment and made the subject matter "sticky".

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Scrum Defined by Ken Schwaber

Posted December 18, 2008 - By Shawn Cheatham | Comments Off

In preparation for a Scrum Product Owner certification workshop I’m attending next month, I’ve been doing a bit of research that I thought I might share. Typically, I would try to keep the techno-babble to a minimum but I thought this video had ...

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