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Project Management: What an L&D Professional Needs to Know

Clarity Consultants

Here’s a look at what L&D professionals need to know about project management. Choosing software that facilitates task-tracking and simplifies coordination makes a difference, ensuring everyone is aware of the part they play and when their assigned deliverables are due. Time Management. Tracking for Coordination.

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Consultant Ninja: Signs of Crunch Time: Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

Countdown metric unit shrinking. ["96 Joel on Software. Client timeline shortening. Lets shoot for a Wednesday draft"] Partner involvement growing. ["I I havent seen a deck in a while. Can you please send the most recent version over?"] 96 hours until were done."] Cursing off the chart. ["f**k." damn, why doesnt that add up?"]

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A Refresher on A/B Testing

Harvard Business

In this case, let’s say your metric is the number of visitors who click on the button. To run the test, you show two sets of users (assigned at random when they visit the site) the different versions (where the only thing different is the size of the button) and determine which influenced your success metric the most.

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How to Manage Managers

Harvard Business

Regularly seek feedback on how you’re doing as their manager. Matt Van Itallie, the vice president of customer support at a Maryland-based software company, took on a new role last December. He inherited a team of seven people, five of whom were relatively new managers. Case Study #1: Model the behavior you want to see.