Setting a launch date for your new web site is common practice. Even though nobody knows what exactly the site might look like and even less how much effort it will be to launch it, the release date is fixed. This can have positive and negative effects. The Good The positive side of having a … Continue reading Launch Dates – The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
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How to guide a team through a crisis
No matter whether your team is self-organizing or not, when the shit hits the fan, they'll need strict rules and close guiding to manage the crisis. Clear Responsibilities First, everyone has to know exactly what they're supposed to do. Whether it's restarting crashed servers, capturing log outputs, or just staying the hell out of the … Continue reading How to guide a team through a crisis
Open Communication Stops De-Motivating your Team
Instead of motivating our teams, we should simply stop de-motivating them. Everyone you work with is highly motivated by default. But, bad information policies, countermanding orders or simply ignoring ideas will turn a highly motivated team member into a disgruntled road block. Open Communication Highly skilled team members are able to deal with the truth. … Continue reading Open Communication Stops De-Motivating your Team
Presentations Made Simple – How To Connect To A Non Technical Audience
Yesterday I came across Admin Zen by Michael "Mika" Prokop. Admin Zen is a great collection of habits you should try to master if you are responsible for running any critical systems. If you haven't read it, you should do so right now. I'll wait... Barriers For Communication I think communication is one of the … Continue reading Presentations Made Simple – How To Connect To A Non Technical Audience
6 Bad Ways of Conveying Urgent Tasks (And How to Fight Them)
Sometimes, due to the high urgency of issues, the owners of tasks are not patient enough to use your standardized way of filing a ticket in your issue tracking system. Instead, they resort to various ways of conveying the new task to you or your team, disrupting your seamless ticket flow. Here's a list of … Continue reading 6 Bad Ways of Conveying Urgent Tasks (And How to Fight Them)
