education

Starting With Agile

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An agile review of Agile methodologies

Agile is a group of software methodologies designed to optimize software development projects around self-organizing teams. There are many methodologies around Agile but the concept is just as the name implies, you need to be agile — self-organizing, light on procedure and policies, and most importantly, provide a steady stream of incremental accomplishments moving your project forward daily. The opposite of Agile would the processes used by every traditional big company to implement everything!

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How The World Sees You – Book

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Optimizing your team through passion

Sally Hogshead released “How the World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination” in July 2014 and it quickly make its way to the New York Times’ and Wall Street Journal’s bestseller lists. I’ve been a huge fan of Sally’s work ever since she was a speaker at the first OTA Sessions back in 2011. So when I heard she had a new book out, I pre-ordered it and cracked the cover the day it arrived. Read more

Create a Professional Web Site in Minutes

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Strikingly

Building a one-page event site for a non-profit

I’m a board member of a local non-profit called Health Connect of South Dakota. Like most non-profits, we have a few fundraisers throughout the year with one big fundraiser where we put most of our effort. That event is the Health & Safety Festival held in the fall, October 11th to be exact (formerly called The Family Fun Festival.) In previous years, we did not have an event Web site, but instead promoted through traditional means like fliers, billboards, radio, and print, plus Facebook of course.

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The Radios of Today – Podcasts

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Continued Education Through Audio

Recently I got hooked on listening to podcasts. The last time I listened to one, the quality and selection were very poor, only techies could produce them, and it simply wasn’t that interesting. How quickly times change as the technology improves – Stitcher currently contains over 25k radio shows, live radio stations and podcasts.

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