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PMing A One Person Show: Embrace The Internet Economy
This is a series: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 On this day in 1926, Ford Motor Company becomes one of the first companies in America to adopt a five-day, 40-hour week for workers in its automotive factories. The policy would be extended to Ford’s office workers the following August. Henry Ford’s Detroit-based automobile company…
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PMing A One Person Show: Early Automation & Communication Is Key
This is a series: Part 1 and Part 2. The average workplace touts multiple things to get talent through its doors: freedom, snacks of some sort and culture. Google has donut burgers. Apple has sushi. Your average workplace may have bagel Fridays. These are the supposed perks that will make employees happy and keep…
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To Be or Not To Be…An Engaged PM
“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. …” – Hamlet Act III: Scene 2 Shakespeare? Project Management? Yes, actually. The above segment is instruction from…
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The Name of the Game…Jam: Unity Test Run
Commit. Pull. Test. Push. Obus, Tanner, Jake and myself wanted to try doing a Game Jam with the new Unity 4.6 Beta 20. Obus is literate in C and Lua. I am literate in Actionscript. Jake does mathematical algorithms in Python. Tanner knows Unity/C#. We were excited about the prospect of a game jam;…