At TeamFit, we are deep into the design and development of our TeamBuilder module. TeamBuilder is used to find the best people for a team and will be released later in June. So we have been talking to a...
High performance teams take risks. They take calculated risks, but real risks that can have bad outcomes. And consistently taking risks, and making sure that enough of those risks pay off, requires trust. When was the last time you...
I’ve been speaking to many firms over the last few months to get a better understanding of how companies that live on service revenues are managing and optimizing the allocation of people to teams. And as part of this,...
Data is at the center of business strategy today. We use data to make decisions, define who we are (the quantified self and the data-driven enterprise) and even to predict the future. So it is not surprising that fights...
LinkedIn executed on an important strategic decision this month (May 2015). As it had announced well in advance (no one can claim they were taken by surprise by this), it closed off access to its platform to all but...
Based on a conversation with Dan Ronald, VP Product Management at Optigo Networks It was a rare sunny spring day in Vancouver’s when I met with Dan Ronald in search of new insights into team performance. Dan is an experienced...
TeamFit is built around skills and project teams. Why? Because our skills are a very powerful way to describe who we are and what we are interests are. A list of my skills and where I have applied them...
Do you teams have the ability to bounce back? A lot can go wrong over the course of a project. There can be unexpected technology challenges, delays caused by change at the customer, people can leave teams for all...
Most of us think we know ourselves pretty well. We think we know what our skills are and how we apply them. But there is a lot of research that says this is not so and that we don’t...
Data ownership models are going to be a hot topic for the next few years as we redefine working relationships and the value of personal data becomes obvious to everyone. The current model, where the employer and the employer...
Andre Kaminski has more than twenty-five years experience across project management, program management and product management. He works primarily on large and complex projects, generally involving software development and implementation, with all of the culture change issues that this...
“The P in PM is as much about ‘people management’ as it is about ‘project management’.” – Cornelius Fichtner Project managers must juggle multiple resources to implement projects. They operate under multiple constraints and uncertainties. People’s skills, attitudes and...
We changed the headline on the TeamFit website recently. “To Manage Your Talent. Know Your Talent.” Why the focus on talent? Well, talent is central to team performance. Yes a talented team can screw up (the Stanley Cup playoffs...
Over the past weeks, we have been conducting a number of open conversations as well as one on one conversations with several PMs. TeamFit is interested in understanding the challenges that PMs are currently facing, the roles that PMs...
Now that we have the first version of TeamFit out (you can check it out here) and people using it we are getting a lot of feedback on how people think about skills and build teams. And we want...
We released the TeamFit open beta this week. Our online team matching service that helps individuals and teams show off their accomplishments. We are building TeamFit because we know the nature of work is changing. The people on the...
The long-term shift in employment from full-time jobs to contingent work is gathering momentum. Most of us will spend some part of our working life in this mode. We will work as independent contractors, we will work on hybrid...