Life-in-Progress

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Archive for January, 2007

Unvirtuous Patience

Posted by Alora Posted on Jan - 23 - 2007

I realize that I am not the world’s most patient person. This is a source of endless frustration with my fiance: we both get frustrated with each other because I think that he should or does know/understand something that he doesn’t, and when it becomes clear that he doesn’t, I have to decide if that  [ Read More ]

Categories: Career & Professional

Awesome Day

Posted by Alora Posted on Jan - 17 - 2007

I find it amazing that the times when I typically realize I am having the best days are the days when I am peddle-to-the-metal, no-holds-barred, hair-on-fire busy as hell. Why is that? Today was spectacular… and I’m not entirely sure I can adequately quantify precisely why. I think the bottom line was that I had  [ Read More ]

Categories: Mentors

Process Development

Posted by Alora Posted on Jan - 10 - 2007

Project Managers tend to be very process oriented. As a group, we like things standardized, uniform and easily repeatable. That is why I tend to find it amusing that every single job I’ve ever had goes through the process of defining and re-defining their own project delivery process every year or two. As an organization  [ Read More ]