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Generative AI Prompting Formulas: The keys to your success

Most people think using AI is just typing a question and hoping for magic. But here’s the truth: The quality of your results depends on one key skill: effective prompting. Without it, you’ll get vague, unhelpful responses. With it, you unlock AI’s full potential....

Have you ever heard of erasure poetry?

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I heard about Erasure Poetry on a blog I follow this morning. According to Wikipedia, “Erasure Poetry is also known as blackout poetry, is a form of found poetry wherein a poet takes an existing text and erases, blacks out, or otherwise obscures a large portion...

What’s the big deal about retrospectives?

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Retrospectives provide an opportunity to inspect and adapt. They allow a team to hit the pause button to really reflect about the work at hand and how the team is working together. The best retrospectives are the ones that result in a couple solid action items that...

What do people care about hearing in weekly status updates?

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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.

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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...

Excuses for not doing the retrospective

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What are your team’s excuses for not executing a lesson learned or retrospective for your project? From my experience, there are probably many. Too busy. No time. Don’t want to stop momentum. Limited budget. Honestly, I’ve used some of these too in...