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		<title>Dealing with a micromanaging boss or client</title>
		<link>http://fearnoproject.com/2012/03/30/dealing-with-a-micromanaging-boss-or-client/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce McGraw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK – How many of you have had to deal with a boss or client who is what we call a “micromanager”?  There are successful techniques that you can apply to help deal with a boss/client that micromanages your project. First though, it helps to understand where the micromanager is coming from and what problems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fearnoproject.com&#038;blog=6363160&#038;post=1158&#038;subd=fearnoproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Project Cost Estimating and How Scrum Projects Estimate Cost</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce McGraw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to provoke an emotional reaction from a group of software development managers, ask them about their experience doing project cost estimation &#8211; WOW. I doubt you will find any of them who look forward to the task. Some of the managers may even become downright hostile. Estimating the cost of a software [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fearnoproject.com&#038;blog=6363160&#038;post=1139&#038;subd=fearnoproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scrum Project’s Biggest Risk – Where did the Product Owner go?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce McGraw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I continue my series dealing with Scrum.  I mentioned in previous Scrum posts that I appreciated the opportunity to talk in depth with Don McGreal, VP of Training at Improving Enterprise about his lessons learned as a Scrum master. One comment of Don’s that caught my attention because its truth is reflected in my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fearnoproject.com&#038;blog=6363160&#038;post=1130&#038;subd=fearnoproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Go with your gut — cautiously</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce McGraw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the popular TV show NCIS, the team leader (Mark Harmon) is frequently heard exhorting his staff to “go with your gut” (for the women readers I guess you call this female intuition!). The lesson he is sharing with the team is that your intuition, as opposed to decisions based solely on analytics, may give [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fearnoproject.com&#038;blog=6363160&#038;post=1101&#038;subd=fearnoproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cognitive Science Insights into Decision Making</title>
		<link>http://fearnoproject.com/2012/01/12/cognitive-science-insights-into-decision-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce McGraw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who know me understand how my company relies on cognition principles and experts to make our projects successful.  Dr. Karen McGraw, the founder of Cognitive Technologies, has said on many occasions that “Cognitive is the first word in our company name because if you don’t focus first on the way people think, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fearnoproject.com&#038;blog=6363160&#038;post=1066&#038;subd=fearnoproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Asking for Help</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce McGraw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever ask for help or assistance?  I don’t know why so many people (And organizations!) feel like they cannot go get help when they need to.  Perhaps because people see asking for help as a sign of personal failure, they are reluctant to do it. Instead, they continue to struggle and hope for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fearnoproject.com&#038;blog=6363160&#038;post=1056&#038;subd=fearnoproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Productivity – Suggestions from PMI</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce McGraw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have not wandered through the Project Management Institute&#8217;s (PMI) knowledge center, you have missed an excellent source of best-practice thinking on a variety of issues relevant to project and corporate management. Recently I reviewed an article by Pradeep Patra, PMP and Sunitha Bartaki, PMP of Tata Consultancy Services Limited that I thought was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fearnoproject.com&#038;blog=6363160&#038;post=1023&#038;subd=fearnoproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding a Content Management System Solution – Part 2</title>
		<link>http://fearnoproject.com/2011/11/17/finding-a-content-management-system-solution-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce McGraw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week in part 1, I talked about selecting a content management system (CMS) (which has many names like records management or knowledge management) from a technical perspective. However, just as with any productivity-enhancing tool, the process does not end with getting the tool. Rather, the process begins by understanding the value of content management [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fearnoproject.com&#038;blog=6363160&#038;post=1000&#038;subd=fearnoproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Professional ScrumMaster Class Offered in Austin Texas</title>
		<link>http://fearnoproject.com/2011/11/03/professional-scrummaster-class-offered-in-austin-texas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce McGraw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have written and spoken in the past about agile and the incremental approaches to building solutions.  I am learning more about SCRUM and how it can improve our ability to be successful in our projects.  Scrum provides a framework for software development that is incremental and iterative. Scrum is based on agile principles that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fearnoproject.com&#038;blog=6363160&#038;post=985&#038;subd=fearnoproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to cancel a failing project gracefully</title>
		<link>http://fearnoproject.com/2011/09/08/how-to-cancel-a-failing-project-gracefully/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce McGraw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A couple weeks ago (August 21, 2011 to be exact), I was watching a “60 Minutes” interview on TV about whistle blowing and a NSA employee’s possible trial for espionage. Interesting stuff, I guess. However, what caught my attention was that the charges revolved around a software development project. (Here’s the full story, if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fearnoproject.com&#038;blog=6363160&#038;post=934&#038;subd=fearnoproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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