How many times do you complete a task that you don't believe in just so that you can tell your manager it's complete? Susan was asked by Jerry, her manager, to do a knowledge transfer to her geographically dispersed teammates about a recent internal meeting at HQ. The internal meeting had been the typical three day death by Powerpoint … [Read more...]
PowerPoint Confession
I confess. In the mid-1980s, I really liked Powerpoint. I was a Systems Engineer for the Amdahl Corporation who gave hundreds of presentations each year. Up until PowerPoint, my choices for media was either a slide projector or overhead projector. So, I could use the corporate slide set or hand draw my own overheads. The corporate slide set, … [Read more...]
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Have you every compared your skills to another person? How about upping the comparison by comparing yourself to an earlier version of yourself? In this article, I compare my skills today with my skills 20 years earlier. First published by Software Testing and Quality Magazine Volume 2 Issue 2 March/April 2000. <> I'm forty-five, with a … [Read more...]