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		<title>All Shapes and Sizes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a few years facilitating an award winning PM Certificate program in Vancouver, up to about a year ago. One of the things that astounded me in that program (and I&#8217;m sure the scenario plays out elsewhere as well) is that on the first day, most of the students were looking for a standard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Outside Perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a consulting role for the past 12 years, I&#8217;ve worked with organizations from an outside perspective. Whether mentoring project teams in an academic environment, performing due diligence for a venture capital firm, or facilitating key team discussions, the value that I bring from the outside is something that is difficult to replace. Here&#8217;s my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reductio ad Absurdum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a note recently from someone halfway across the world, asking about a detail in my white paper about quantifying the quality requirements of a system. The query me ponder for a moment before I came up with a reasonable response, but I think it highlighted something that applies in a broader sense as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working the Fundamentals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the time we have watching our kids in their activities this fall, a pattern begins to emerge. All of these activities involve practice and drills intended to improve proficiency in fundamentals of each activity: dribbling and passing in soccer and basketball, scales and chord progressions in guitar, footwork drills and off-ice practice in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expertise vs. Teamwork</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were working through a project management workshop that I have blogged about in the past, where we have a fun blend of theory and practice centred around a brief construction project. With more than enough resources to go around, we decided to try to design an experiment for the last round that might help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolving Perspectives</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that at any point in time, the current beliefs we hold to be true are sacrosanct. We are entirely convinced that we are correct as we use these beliefs to guide our way through life. It also seems that if we look back in time, whether that is 50 years ago, twenty years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come Together</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conflict in a team setting is one of the natural hazards of the workplace. Unless you are on a project with no schedule pressure, and no technical challenges, and a single obvious way to get the job done, there will be some form of conflict (if you do happen to work on that sort of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leveraging the Frog in the Pot</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone has heard of that metaphor of a frog in a pot of water: put the little guy in hot water and he&#8217;ll jump right out, heat the water gradually and he&#8217;ll just hang out there. The gradual changes are too subtle for him to perceive them and do anything about it. This explains why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pushing Too Hard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 16:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We often make commitments to get things done within a given timeframe. Whether the time constraint was handed to you or you chose it is moot, as long as you have agreed to the commitment. If that time commitment is firm, and you find that it is not looking possible at some point, strange things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spotting Potential Conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 13:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With almost any team endeavour, whether it is called a project or not, there will be ample opportunities for stresses to creep in, for decisions to be made that don&#8217;t make everyone happy, for things to not go according to plan. Just as with any stresses, if left unchecked there is a really good chance [...]]]></description>
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