How to Get Past an Ineffective Meeting Culture
Have you ever been sitting in a meeting and thinking to yourself, “Why am I here?” As it turns out, you may not be the only one. A Harvard study surveyed 182 senior managers in…
Have you ever been sitting in a meeting and thinking to yourself, “Why am I here?” As it turns out, you may not be the only one. A Harvard study surveyed 182 senior managers in…
Good communication skills are essential in any job. It would be great if communication were like math and science; follow the formula and it just works. Unfortunately, there’s an art to communication, and to some…
It is no secret that finding time for exercise can be difficult, particularly when most of your day is spent at a desk. A sometimes even greater task is trying to eat healthy foods when…
More than once in my computer consulting career I’ve heard clients ask questions similar to the following: Why didn’t you know about that? Or, you’re the expert with this software, so how was this problem…
If you are a software developer, learning new technologies is a way of life. That is probably one the of reasons why you are developer in the first place - you like to kick the…
At Zirous we have found that it is critical to understand the business problem and requirements for the project upfront for a successful implementation. In order to do that we like to start our projects with a discovery engagement.
You’re being told to embrace data from every news outlet and blog. This can be easier in some areas of the workforce than others, though. In marketing, you can measure success with tracking of ads.…
Agile methodology is great for project execution, but projects will still have problems, and possibly fail, due to contract related challenges. I’ve seen some of these challenges first-hand; how can you anticipate them in order to be successful. Learn how in this post.