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Archive for February, 2006

Microsoft Origami

Monday, February 27th, 2006

I find myself strangely excited about Microsoft’s soon-to-be-releaved Project Origami. Their silly little say-nothing website isn’t what’s doing it for me either.

Rumor has it that Project Origami will be something to the extent of a ultra-portible Windows Tablet PC. Other rumors are flying around about it being a media/video system as well, but that doesn’t interest me too much.

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Using Status Update Meetings

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

A friend and I were talking on MSN today about the challenge of managing updates for tasks that you have delegated to people. He was telling me that it can be very hard not to want/need constant updates.

I can understand how you can feel this way – especially with junior staff or people you don’t 100% trust to complete a task within the required constraints (both quality and time). The challenge is that harassing people for updates can very detrimental to the confidence and productivity of a team member. Not to mention that it shows a big lack of trust in a member of your team.

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