Daily Archive: March 24, 2014

The Importance Of Scope

In my recent post on Common Ground I mentioned the critical role that a thorough understanding of scope has on establishing common ground for any project or service team.  Given the criticality and the relatively low cost of defining scope you’d think that every project would do an exceptional job...

Belief And Religion

I don’t believe in a god but I do believe in the teachings of Jesus interpreted for the modern world.  Fortunately, for me, Jesus holds no religious (or other form of) authority so I also get to draw on the teachings of other religions and philosophies for inspiration, but I...

Collaboration And Common Ground

Driving home from Cambridge Steph and I were discussing teams and so I got to explain my favourite tool for establishing effective collaboration, building ‘common ground’.  It’s an incredibly simple concept, but that simplicity makes it powerful. The basic idea: The more complex a collaboration, the more areas of common...