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Job Interviewing Sucks

peter — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:33:28 +0000

Ain’t it the truth though?

Job interviews don’t tell you:

- Whether they really have the technical skills you need

- Whether they really fit into your culture

- Whether they really will work best in your team

- Whether… etc etc.

So… what’s to be done? I have a few ideas…

Job Interviewing Sucks

$9.99 Apple Store Promotion! Get The Agile Pocket Guide Book on Sale! @ibookstore

peter — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:24:11 +0000

It’s here on the Apple Store: The Agile Pocket Guide. It’s right there in the “Learning Business Skills” brick on the main page, in conjunction with the Apple WWDC conference.

It is a two week Apple promotion dropping ebook prices to $9.99 starting 6/4 and running through 6/17.

Would love a tweet about it!:

The Agile Pocket Guide is now only $9.99 in the @iBookstore for the Apple #WWDC2013 - http://ow.ly/lHo6F

There are lots of other books on sale too… here are the other books at the promotion!:

Main Promo Link: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewRoom?cc=us&fcId=657275399&id=27829&mt=11&ls=1

App Empire https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-empire/id507887295?mt=11&ls=1
What’s the Future of Business? https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/whats-the-future-of-business/id571049816?mt=11&ls=1
Business Model You https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/business-model-you/id557869891?mt=11&ls=1
Behind the Cloud https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/behind-the-cloud/id378938405?mt=11&ls=1
Converge https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/converge/id635632440?mt=11&ls=1
Rebooting Work https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/rebooting-work/id580498176?mt=11&ls=1
Social Business by Design https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/social-business-by-design/id519041286?mt=11&ls=1
Get Lucky https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/get-lucky/id503872281?mt=11&ls=1
Content to Commerce https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/content-to-commerce/id646247116?mt=11&ls=1
The Agile Pocket Guide https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-agile-pocket-guide/id536549117?mt=11&ls=1
A Fine Line https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/a-fine-line/id378874515?mt=11&ls=1

$9.99 Apple Store Promotion! Get The Agile Pocket Guide Book on Sale! @ibookstore

Becoming a PMI Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) – More like RIP for Trees

peter — Thu, 16 May 2013 23:22:19 +0000

Almost 500 pages…for the application…proof, proof, and more proof.

If you are a trainer, and you want to become a PMI REP so people can claim PDUs for taking your class or workshop, you have some tree-choppin’ to do. Maybe the option to submit this in electronic form is better…way to go.

Becoming a PMI Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) – More like RIP for Trees

Slowest Email Response Ever [Friday Weird]

peter — Fri, 03 May 2013 18:41:39 +0000

I’m not sure whether I was offended or just… surprised. Happy Friday!

Slowest Email Response Ever [Friday Weird]

Jira Jr. – Project Tracking for Kids?

peter — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:01:02 +0000

I opened this up in the office and I literally said out loud: “Oh my goodness. You’ve got to be kidding me.”

I assume it’s an April fools joke… but reading the comments on this video was even better than the video itself…

For example:

Don Draper 13 hours ago

hah-hah, april foo? Jira is another sorry product turning engineers/creatives into robots and stifling imagination/innovation. There are better, more efficient products out there. shAtlassian prides itself on being the master of masturbatory mundaneness in tracking the superfluous to enable wanker managers to see how their cube bots slave away to make money for these corporate turds who haven’t the brains to be engineers themselves, but lie and cheat and stomp on people to get to the top.

People. Lighten up!