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Cultivating Teams: A Lesson from the Jungle Book
“For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack…” a classic quote from Rudyard Kipling’s, The Jungle Book. As a former collegiate tennis player, this was one of our team’s mantras. In a successful team, each individual must be viewed as an asset and by relying [...]
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“For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack…” a classic quote from Rudyard Kipling’s, The Jungle Book. As a former collegiate tennis player, this was one of our team’s mantras. In a successful team, each individual must be viewed as an asset and by relying [...]
We are excited to announce that Credera has been named one of the top 100 places to work in Dallas / Fort Worth by The Dallas Morning News. The winners were chosen from a pool of approximately 1,200 companies based on an employee satisfaction survey. Credera’s great culture, talent of our team and ability to deliver for our clients were noted by our employees as some of the main reasons for their satisfaction.
Now that we’ve covered the need for a clear Product Owner role and appropriately delineated responsibility between the two, what about larger organizations which could have multiple roles across multiple projects and products? In keeping with Agile Manifesto, the team should “prioritize individuals and interactions over processes and tools,” as well as “customer collaboration over [...]
“Every parent can relate to grades A through F. We’re not changing inputs, just translating in a way that is clear,” Tim Taylor, Colorado Succeeds President, told the Denver Post. Until now, the task of sorting through data to determine a school’s strengths and weaknesses was very cumbersome. Colorado Succeeds had a vision to compile the data given by the Colorado Department of Education and translate the data into grades A-F for each school across the state. Grades are based on several factors: student proficiency, gaps in growth, and academic group.
I recently finished reading the book Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin, and found the book’s insights on deliberate practice particularly revealing. Deliberate practice is one of the central tenets thought to invoke high performance in individuals – which is often mistaken by the world to be “God-given abilities” or innate talent. Deliberate practice is [...]
Went for a jog with Sweetie (my dog) this morning. She so badly wants to chase squirrels. They seem to be everywhere gathering nuts for winter. They like to mess with Sweetie. They jerk their tails around and try to agitate her. In our backyard they walk along the top of the fence and attempt [...]
This is the final installment of a three-part series comparing ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms as a paradigm for ASP.NET websites. If you missed the first or second parts of the series, you can find part one here and part two here. The purpose of this series is not to choose one technology versus the [...]
This is part 2 of a 3-part series comparing ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms as a paradigm for ASP.NET websites. If you missed the first part of the series, you can find it here. The purpose of this series is not to choose one technology over the other, but rather to point out each of [...]