My friend Dan is a staffer for a software company. I asked him recently what he was working on. He told me he invests the majority of his time on a project to change the way his company licenses its software. As soon as I heard the words, "software," "licensing," and "change," I was hooked. I had grappled with a similar change for one of my … [Read more...]
Your Team’s Answer is Wrong, Part 2
In response to my post entitled Your Team's Answer is Wrong, my colleague Bob Lee writes -- (You wrote) "The trainers passed out a copy of the correct answer for the case study to all of us." (emphasis added) The definite article the as opposed to the indefinite article a is a killer here. Had they framed their solution as a … [Read more...]