Productivity: Making The Difference

Through many personal anecdotes and experiences, Mark presents a number of principles that will help you take charge of your professional life and challenge the way you think about productivity and personal development. He is a master at increasing the productivity of people and organizations. Mark’s insights are drawn from his experience consulting and coaching on projects for a wide variety of organizations from large multi-year initiatives with the United States Government to projects for fledgling startups creating their first software project. Mark has a proven track record working with companies and government agencies on a wide variety of software development projects. He helps clients successfully transform projects with efficient approaches and move ideas into valuable working systems. In 2014, Intuit recognized Mark as one of the world’s leading experts in workplace productivity. Launched in 2005, Productivity501.com is regularly ranked in the top 50 blogs about productivity.

Productivity: Making the Difference

Business & Money

Shead, Mark

Business Culture

Swift Word Publishing

Mark Shead, President of Xeric Corporation, has a proven track record working with companies and government agencies on a wide variety of softeware development projects. He helps clients successfully transform projects with efficient approaches and able to move ideas into valuable working systems. 
Mark is also recognized as a leading expert on productivity and author of Productivity501.com blog. This book presents a number of principles that will help you take charge of your professional life and make you more productive and effecient.

Many teams attempt to "become Agile" by adopting Agile practices. When this produces some improvements, they declare victory, print the t-shirts and order the cake. Agile achievement unlocked! What's next? Increased efficiency is not trivial, but this approach fails to recognize the potential of Agile. True agility requires something more fundamental than simply replacing one set of rigid inefficient practices with new ones--even if they happen to be less wasteful. Better practices alone do not an Agile team make. To be Agile, teams must go further. They must learn to deal with change as a core competency, and that means creating a base that goes deeper than Agile practices. The Agile principles are what provide this foundation. The principles provide the why below the practices and give teams a bedrock that allows the practices to adapt to change.

Starting Agile: Finding Your Path

Management & Leadership

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Productivity: Making the Difference

Productivity: Making The Difference

Starting Agile: Finding Your Path