Posted in Architecture, Communication, People, Psychology, Reading on December 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Are excellent communicators born or bred? To communicate well you need probably a bit of both, but it turns out that a large part can be learnt.
Genie Laborde, the author Influencing With Integrity, comes from the school of thought that looks at an effective communication process, breaks it down into smaller elements that can be […]
Posted in Architecture, People, Reading on December 29th, 2007 9 Comments »
When it comes to training & development, I have a standard stock recommendation for people I manage or mentor: Apart from learning about technology and architecture methods, take some soft skills courses or read relevant books. Strangely, many people do not see too much of a point in this: “You are an architect; you do […]
Posted in Delivery, People on December 7th, 2007 No Comments »
The most recent in the series of good questions that James McGovern fires off daily on his weblog is “what is the breakdown of your daily work?”
Hmm. Let me think, so this year, it has been probably something like
Analyst/strategist: 40% (see Todd Biske’s definition for what do I mean by this)
Technical delivery manager: 20% (a […]