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A bench with two seats


A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to hear Joshua Gutwill, a researcher at the Exploratorium, speak about Instrumenting Chaos: Understanding the Visitor Experience in a Free-Choice Environment. In the Q&A part of the talk, someone asked if...
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"Traditional software is like cocaine"


In a mind-numbing interview with ZDnet, Harry Debes, CEO of ERP vendor Lawson Software, demonstrates why the traditional enterprise software market is overdue for disruption. Debes' remarks show how little care and understanding legacy...
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Linking Performance Appraisals to Business Plans


Performance appraisals should never be conducted in isolation of the overall business direction. It is important to link each person's goals and objectives back to the business overall goals and...
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Getting a Performance Management Budget


Getting budget approval for a performance management (PM) project seems to be an ongoing theme amongst HR professionals. The problem seems to be that human resources departments don't often contemplate projects costing tens or hundreds of...
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Dealing with rater over-confidence


With good performance review processes, you have the employee complete a self rating before you meet. Generally many employees rate themselves quite hard, or on par with your views of their performance. But what do you do if the person has rated...
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Gilbert and Sullivan present: The High-Tech Produc


I’ve always liked the Major General’s song from The Pirates of Penzance. Here’s how Gilbert and Sullivan *may* have described high-tech Product Managers. I am the very model of a high-tech product manager, I’ve information customer, partner and...
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