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Key Points

  • focused on client success first 
  • earn client long-term relationships
  • virtual resources to meet on-demand needs
  • look to add value to clients in specific roles in partnership with other providers
  • provide unbiased analysis and guidance on business and IT solution strategies


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Key Concepts



Team Hiring Concepts


Hire and Develop your team

As a manager of tech teams, it wasn't always easy to find the perfect person with the perfect skills for a role. I would look for the best, motivated person who I thought would make a great team mate. I then evaluated what key technical skills or experience they were missing against my ideal position requirements. If I felt I could support and develop a few missing tech skills quickly by supporting them with our team and knowledge base, I'd go for the right team mate and bet I could get value from day 1 while growing their skills to fit the role. I'm sure that's not a normal approach today. As a manager I felt just like a coach trying to build the right team and train them. I was ALWAYS in the education business to create teams that could deliver the right services and value.

Team mates can be full-time, part-time or contract

remote work is fine with travel as required to meet client needs for some roles




Potential Value Opportunities



Potential Challenges



Poor Team Behaviors to Manage - the ZODIAC

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/igor-buinevici_toxic-employees-can-ruin-your-business-activity-7213515438406688768-CRKE?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Nothing undermines a culture faster than the presence of danger and mistrust.

But how to define toxic behaviors?

My friend, Jeroen Kraaijenbrink, has unique definitions of those:

HiPPO – Highest Paid Person’s Opinion
ZEBRA – Zero Evidence But Really Arrogant
WOLF – Working On the Latest Fire
RHINO – Really Here In Name Only
SEAGULL – Senior Executive that Always Glides in, Unloads and Leaves Loudly
DODO – Dangerously OutDated Opinions
ViPER – Vindictive Person Endangering Results
MOUSE – Muddled Opinions, Usually Swayed Easily
PARROT – Pretty Annoying and Ridiculously Repeating OThers
DONKEY – Data Only, No Knowledge, Expertise or whY


Useful concepts to consider when working with teams. While different methods are needed to address these challenges at some point, summarizing best practices for building focused, motivated, self organizing collaborative teams that improve with effective feedback is important. I have several reference points that have been helpful to me.

Key tips to start building effective teams  >> go beyond Agile

  • building focused, motivated, self organizing collaborative teams that improve with effective feedback is important. I have several reference points that have been helpful to me.
  • what's in it for the company?
  • what's in it for the team?
  • what's in it for me?
  • expectations, consequences 
  • CBTP focus
  • powerful communication, consensus, collaboration
  • democratic autocracy on decisions, organizing
  • continuous focus on execution, change management, stakeholder consensus, value delivery
  • Project Homeruns >> how to deliver solutions: Discovery, Assessment, Design


How to Score Big on Investments in Business, IT

How to raise your PBA (Project Batting Average ) to .900 for on time, on budget, on value delivery?

  1. find the domain and stakeholders << VCE definition?
  2. find the purpose << mission, value for the domain?
  3. find the challenges << what are the current issues and problem statements?
  4. find the history <<. what were the expectations, investments, consequences of past efforts?
  5. find the goals and priorities now << what are the current goals, priorities and related KPI, OKR metrics 
  6. find the best solution strategy << given the goals, resources, needs, what is a candidate best solution strategy?  << VCRS
  7. find the potential value << research the potential value, impacts for a "best" solution strategy with those responsible for delivery and operation << FACTUR3DT.io << POVs
  8. find stakeholder consensus << net value for change? ownership? VCRS keys communication, consensus, collaboration methods
  9. find the commitment for the solution << CBTP << new expectations << new solution commitments << resource and solution planning strategies, tactics
  10. kick off the solution process



Candidate Solutions



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