UX Business
Mr. Waterfall Meet Mr. Agile
Posted on March 16th, 2008 by
Around the time Alan Cooper was giving his really great talk An Insurgency of Quality at this year’s IxDA, I was giving a talk that came to some of the same conclusions from a different starting point.
Continue...Telling Stories
Posted on January 10th, 2008 by
Lately stories and storytelling have become a bit of a theme around ADGi. It started a couple of months ago with me noting that a company we were doing some business with referred Very Often to their “story” as in “we have a great story to tell about our SharePoint implementation services” or “I met with those guys and didn’t like their story.”
Continue...Learning to Negotiate
Posted on January 9th, 2008 by
In the last few months I’ve been forced to negotiate far more and for many more things than ever before in my life. I’ve discovered that I hate it. Really. It’s so hard. I’ve also discovered that I’m not alone. In their book Women Don't Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation--and Positive Strategies for Change , Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever explain the primary differences in the way women and men approach negotiations.
Continue...Fostering Innovation at ADGi
Posted on January 9th, 2008 by
Three weeks ago I was at CANUX 07 listening to David Armano’s talk, The Fuzzy Tail, where he described an approach to fostering collaboration and innovation at Critical Mass.. His approach to achieving collaboration and innovation is to combine a hierarchical structure with a collaborative model.
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