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The Risk and the Ride

When the weather holds up, summertime brings lots of options for outdoor activities that are not as well-suited to the colder months. Motorcycling, for example. Here in New England, unless you’re a true die hard, once the evening frost comes … Continue reading

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The Future of Workplace Conversations

Regardless of what role you are in or how long you’ve worked somewhere, everyone has had to have difficult conversations with their boss, peer, or vendor. These workplace stressors can negatively impact your quality of work and, most of all, … Continue reading

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Can we relate?

Project managers are driven by project success. PMs look to processes to manage success and they look to outcomes to measure it. Some measure success by project deliverables, others by the long-term impact of the project, some by project efficiency, like schedule and cost, yet others … Continue reading

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Now It Makes Sense! – What the Green Monster Taught Me About Risk Management

We decided recently to sell our home. Not quite sure if we had missed the buying and selling craze of this past year where both home inventory and interest rates were still low and prices were climbing sky high, we … Continue reading

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Christmas Launch Reveals Gifts from the Mid-Summer Night Sky

[Nebra Sky Disk – Bronze artifact made by early skywatchers] With my summer vacation coming up, I am planning some time on the coast doing a lot of nothing besides battling mosquitoes. We have a nice telescope at the cottage, … Continue reading

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How an agile mindset and scrum framework can help us navigate through our new normal

It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since the world was thrown into this new normal of stay at home, do everything here, all the time. Early on, I cycled through the first few stages of grief – … Continue reading

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The Best Part of Autumn

September always seems like a fresh start, more so than January. Students are heading back to school. The leaves are beginning to change color, fall, and start a new life cycle. Partners and DFCI begin their new fiscal year. But … Continue reading

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Project Management for Dogs

Lately, our dog Colby has been waking up in the middle of the night barking. Colby is a pug so he is both opinionated and weird. The event usually goes something like this: Colby:    bark, bark, bark Me:        … Continue reading

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Shhh. Do you hear that? Me neither.

My life has gotten a lot quieter recently. Did I become an empty nester? No Did noisy neighbors move away? No Did I start to lose my hearing? No So what happened? The elections are over. Mitt no longer calls. … Continue reading

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