What do people care about hearing in weekly status updates?
As a follow-up to my post about sending email updates as an alternative (or improvement) to status meetings, here’s list of what people want to see in their status meeting update emails. What to include in the email update. Project Milestones. List the project...Do your team mates often complain that they don’t get enough emails? Here’s how you can make them happy by sending more.
Email updates as an alternative to status meetings. Sending an email update to stakeholders prior to a status meeting may enable you to cut the status meeting duration in half or thirds. Emailed status updates are also a great way to address some of the reasons that...Agile Retrospectives
I’ve been reading the book Agile Retrospectives and have been posting on the topic of Retrospectives in LI lately. I love the idea of pausing for reflection in both our work lives and personal lives. Until we pause, we are often too busy to really think about...Did you know, the hashtag (#) is technically called an octothorpe?
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the “octo” prefix refers to the eight points on the symbol. The “thorpe” suffix remains more of a mystery. One theory is that “thorpe” comes from the old English word for...Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, you get a combination that’s never existed.
That’s right, the probability comes out to 52 factorial or 52! (52 x 51 x 50 … x 2 x 1). The probability that two card shuffles are exactly the same is so small, it likely will never happen. When I saw this, I thought of people going through their lives...