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Agile Management: Thinking versus Feeling
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Another component of a personality is how someone makes a decision. This is determined by the category of Thinking versus Feeling. Everyone uses a combination of these when making a decision, however, we also all have a dominant method. Please do not confuse feeling with being emotional either. I have known some feeling types that were not emotional in the least, and some thinking types that were truly driven by emotion! They may be considered uncaring . Relationships are important...
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Agile Management: March 2011
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Monday, March 14, 2011. What Catches Your Attention. As I get to know my team, the next set of personality traits that I look at is what catches someone’s attention and how they solve problems. Some people are very rooted in facts, where others are looking at the possibilities. Being a sensing type or intuitive type determines this. Base decisions on what they can see, hear, feel, and touch. Works from facts to solve problems. Because of this, a sensing type may miss new possibilities or options. Also, d...
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Agile Management: What Catches Your Attention
http://stefanieconnolly.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-catches-your-attention.html
Monday, March 14, 2011. What Catches Your Attention. As I get to know my team, the next set of personality traits that I look at is what catches someone’s attention and how they solve problems. Some people are very rooted in facts, where others are looking at the possibilities. Being a sensing type or intuitive type determines this. Base decisions on what they can see, hear, feel, and touch. Works from facts to solve problems. Because of this, a sensing type may miss new possibilities or options. Also, d...
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Agile Management: July 2011
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Monday, July 4, 2011. The last trait in the Myers-Briggs pair describes how you deal with the outer world and how you live your life on a day to day basis. It dictates how you act out your introversion or extroversion as well. Of the four pairs, interacting with the opposite of your type in this. Category is the most. Here is how those differences look:. Likes to have things decided. 8220;Bring me solutions.”. 8220;When presenting information to me focus on the details”. Would rather schedule in advance.
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Agile Management: August 2011
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011. I was telling that story to someone the other day and it occurred to me that the problems in projects are related to the where clause as well. 1 Where the scope is not defined. 2 Where the requirements keep changing. 3 Where the conditions of satisfaction were not defined. 4 Where the client did not have resources allocated to work on the project. 5 Where the definition of done was not established. 6 Where the project manager changed mid-project. This will help you focus the com...
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Agile Management: May 2011
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Another component of a personality is how someone makes a decision. This is determined by the category of Thinking versus Feeling. Everyone uses a combination of these when making a decision, however, we also all have a dominant method. Please do not confuse feeling with being emotional either. I have known some feeling types that were not emotional in the least, and some thinking types that were truly driven by emotion! They may be considered uncaring . Relationships are important...
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Agile Management: Judging vs Perceiving
http://stefanieconnolly.blogspot.com/2011/07/judging-vs-perceiving.html
Monday, July 4, 2011. The last trait in the Myers-Briggs pair describes how you deal with the outer world and how you live your life on a day to day basis. It dictates how you act out your introversion or extroversion as well. Of the four pairs, interacting with the opposite of your type in this. Category is the most. Here is how those differences look:. Likes to have things decided. 8220;Bring me solutions.”. 8220;When presenting information to me focus on the details”. Would rather schedule in advance.
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Agile Management: February 2011
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Monday, February 28, 2011. What Does Agile Management Mean to Me? My blog name is Agile Management and that has lead people to ask if I would be focusing on agile and scrum. I chose Agile Management as the name because what I do is manage projects and people. The name reminds me that being an agile manager means responding to the different needs of my team in a fashion similar to how I adapt to the changing business needs of my clients. Managing people is never one size fits all. Introvert versus extrove...
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Agile Management: The Where Clause
http://stefanieconnolly.blogspot.com/2011/08/where-clause.html
Tuesday, August 30, 2011. I was telling that story to someone the other day and it occurred to me that the problems in projects are related to the where clause as well. 1 Where the scope is not defined. 2 Where the requirements keep changing. 3 Where the conditions of satisfaction were not defined. 4 Where the client did not have resources allocated to work on the project. 5 Where the definition of done was not established. 6 Where the project manager changed mid-project. This will help you focus the com...
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Agile Management: January 2011
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Friday, January 28, 2011. Scrum and PMP Coexisting in Harmony. As a Scrum Master and a PMP, it is interesting to me that these two certifications seem to be somewhat at odds with each other. The PMP in me wants to follow a very specific process and schedule everything from start to finish with dependencies; it’s more of a marathon. To resolve this inner conflict I had to find the similarities and leverage those. Both methodologies intend to help organize, or schedule, the work. Using the product backlog,...
