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Best Practices for Gathering Requirements from Your Stakeholders

Tips for keeping it simple!

Determining the appropriate stakeholders Conflict among the stakeholders as to what is needed Inaccurate or incomplete information provided by stakeholders Uncertainty among the stakeholders as to what the requirements should be Unrealistic expectations by stakeholders as to what is possible Lack of participation among some of the stakeholders Frequent […]

Importance of Talent Management

No Matter What Size Your Company Is!

I was working with a client who runs a small IT strategy consulting firm on an ROI project. They usually hire out their employees (mostly project managers and other project support personnel) to work on client IT implementation projects. Over coffee recently the client (we’ll call him […]

Training Project Team Members On The Job

Make the time! The benefits are many!

When are you providing training to your team members? Likely many of you do so on occasion throughout the year when there is no project going on and they can spend time out of the office. And sure…there is value to training outside of the office. However […]

20 Reasons for Issuing a Press Release

Press releases are still a valuable tool in the age of Social Media.  In fact, you can reach many more potential people with Social Media than in the “good old days.” As I was editing this post I read a terrific post on the Spin Sucks blog. Gini Dietrich‘s main point was that “PR […]

What Makes a Brand Strong?

Consistency and the Ability to Deliver on Brand Promise

I was excited to see the annual Interbrand Top 100 brand results (http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/interbrand-releases-11th-annual-ranking-of-the-100-best-global-brands-103006449.html) released today. Almost as excited as Naven R. Johnson was about the release of the yellow pages in The Jerk.*

I’m always curious about what brands showed up on top and also […]