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    What Is A Delivery Lead?

    A technologist can take several forms and includes roles beyond engineering. The role I fill is a delivery lead, but a common question I’m asked is “What is a Delivery Lead?”
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    Formula For Successful Feedback

    Feedback doesn’t have to be difficult or scary. Follow this simple formula to structure your next feedback conversation.
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    5 Lessons in Product Delivery from Assembling a Murphy Bed

    I noticed several similarities between assembling furniture and delivering software.
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    How User Experience Analysis Improves Delivery

    User Experience Analysis helps you better understand your users' pain points, but it also improves delivery. Learn how a UX Product Review can lead to better product roadmaps and ultimately a more successful product.
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    Why Your SMART Goals Aren't Working: The Key to More Successful Projects

    Not all SMART goals are actually smart. In this post we will take a look in how to dive deeper to truly understand your project motivation.
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    Technology Lifecycle Management

    The future of tech stack efficiency is here. For companies to mature in their IT Strategic financial forecasting, Technology Lifecycle Management will need to be a focus area
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    Lean Service Management

    Leveraging our Strategy Enablement expertise, we were able to lead a project through a large organizational transformation, implementing a model that led them to create a self-perpetuating, self-learning, self-organizing quality strategy program they called Lean Service Management.
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    Consulting 101 Part 3: Partner Dynamics

    Recently Akrem and Erick presented Consulting 101, an annual presentation delivered at a Source Allies University event. We are publishing a three-part blog series that is a distillation of that presentation. In this third and final part we will be discussing partner dynamics.
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    Consulting 101 Part 2: Team Dynamics

    Recently Akrem and Erick presented Consulting 101, an annual presentation delivered at a Source Allies University event. We are publishing a three-part blog series that is a distillation of that presentation. In this second post we will be talking about Team Dynamics.
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    Consulting 101 Part 1: Agile Crash Course

    Recently Akrem and Erick presented Consulting 101, an annual presentation delivered at a Source Allies University event. We are publishing a three-part blog series that is a distillation of that presentation. This first post is a crash course on Agile.