Life-in-Progress

Life is more than a day job.

Writing Requirements – What vs. How

Posted by Alora Posted on Sep - 15 - 2009

It’s been a long time since I’ve written much about my long-standing discipline. As I’ve been focusing more and more of my energies on entrepreneurial endeavors, the details of project management have not been forefront on my mind. That recently changed, however, thanks to a client project. In the development of a new startup, a  [ Read More ]

Categories: Career & Professional

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 ]

Returning Chutzpah (At least at work, anyway)

Posted by Alora Posted on Apr - 20 - 2005

Work today is proving just what I needed for my focus. First, my Director of QA irked me, but since that is neither anything new, nor the source of my epiphany, I’ll skip that for now. However, my Director of Integrations is fair game, and he just issued me the most pissy-ass challenge I could  [ Read More ]

Categories: Career & Professional