What do you know about healthcare.gov, the United States’ new online healthcare marketplace? No matter your political affiliation, you have to admit the launch of the website has been a giant fiasco. When you visit the site, here are a few of the interesting...
For many people, empathy is a tool for personal or spiritual relationships. We save our empathy skills for people who are struggling with poverty, illness or grief. We don’t apply empathy to those who are happy or content and when it comes to our professional lives,...
“Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” – Jimmy Carter At BA-Squared, we think stakeholder engagement is the key to creativity, collaboration and innovation. If your stakeholders are too busy, distracted, apathetic or bored, then status...
As the battle between waterfall and agile rages on, organizations continue modify their approach to software development. Very few move directly to a pure agile approach. Instead, they pilot agile processes, create project selection criteria for agile projects, they...
How many tasks can you handle at one time, successfully? The truth, based on research, ONE. Yep, that’s it. Our brains are not meant to do more than one mental task at a time. But wait, I can participate in a conference call while checking e-mails, updating...
