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e-Newsletter Archives:
The following are links to e-Newsletter
articles documenting our views of various aspects of Effective Engineering.
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e-newsletters by sending an email to e-newsletter@effectiveeng.com.
Comments and suggestions are welcome and encouraged!
Date
eN-Number Title
The Business of Engineering
11/07/02 eN-021107
Ineffective
Engineering Costs You Time, Money & Customers!
11/21/02 eN-021121
Late Projects Kill
Companies!
12/05/02 eN-021205
Poor Quality
Products Imply A Poor Quality Company
12/19/02 eN-021219
Too Many
Cooks
Spoil the Broth!
05/22/03 eN-030522
Keep Your Eyes on THE GOAL!
08/14/03 eN-030814
Effective Engineering Quantified!
Vision / Roadmaps
01/02/03 eN-030102
Poor Company Vision
Clouds Everyone's View
01/16/03 eN-030116
Poor Product Vision
Blinds Engineering
01/30/03 eN-030130
A Poor Product Roadmap Gets Everyone Lost
Customer Orientation
06/19/03 eN-030619
What Do Your Customers Really Want?
04/13/06
eN-060413
Who Funds Your Life?
09/07/06
eN-060907
Connect With Your Customers (Even When You Don't Know Them)!
Organizational Effectiveness
02/13/03 eN-030213
Even Small Cogs are Essential to the Machine
(Recognizing That Your Role Makes a Difference)
02/27/03 eN-030227
It's Your Responsibility to Know Your Role in
Implementing the Vision and Roadmap
03/13/03 eN-030313
Move the Rocks and People Travel Faster
03/27/03 eN-030327
Do Jobs Right - Assign the Right People!
04/10/03 eN-030410
Use the Right Tools to Do the Job Right
06/05/03 eN-030605
Learn from Good Roles Models; Learn More from Bad!
06/02/05 eN-050602
Speaking in Tongues
07/07/05 eN-050707
Can You Hear Me Now?
01/04/07
eN-070104
"What We've Got Here Is A Failure To Communicate!"
03/08/07
eN-070308
Knowledge Is Power!
11/01/07
eN-071101
Be Careful What You Wish For!
Personal Effectiveness
03/02/06
eN-060302
A Fresh Start!
07/05/07
eN-070705
Doing Things Right vs. Doing Things Over
08/02/07
eN-070802
Bad Breath Is Better Than No Breath At All!
09/06/07
eN-070906
Show True Professionalism!
01/03/08
eN-080103
A Fresh Start! - Part II
03/06/08
eN-080306
Serendipity Can Change Your Life!
04/03/08
eN-080403
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!
05/08/08
eN-080508
Looking Down versus Looking Up
Effective Teamwork
04/24/03 eN-030424
Is Anybody There? Does Anybody Care?
05/08/03 eN-030508
Are You Part of
the Solution, or Part of the Problem?
04/07/05 eN-050407
When It's "Us" vs. "Them", Nobody
Wins!
08/04/05 eN-050804
Say What Your Mean, Mean What You Say, and Do What You
Say You'll Do!
09/01/05 eN-050901
Dysfunctional Families
02/07/08
eN-080207
Trust Me, I'm Not Like The Others!
Effective Management
11/06/03 eN-031106
Herding Cats: The Art of "Managing" Engineers
11/20/03 eN-031120
Herding Cats: Management Challenges 1
12/04/03 eN-031204
Herding Cats: Management Challenges 2
12/18/03 eN-031218
Herding Cats: Management Challenges 3
01/08/04 eN-040108
Herding Cats: Management Challenges 4
01/22/04 eN-040122
Herding Cats: Management
Challenges 5
02/05/04 eN-040205
Mis-Managers: How Bad Managers Can Poison the Well
02/19/04 eN-040219
Mis-Managers: Employee Challenges 1
03/04/04 eN-040304
Mis-Managers: Employee Challenges 2
03/18/04 eN-040318
Mis-Managers: Employee Challenges 3
04/01/04 eN-040401
Mis-Managers: Employee Challenges 4
04/15/04 eN-040415
Mis-Managers: Employee Challenges 5
04/29/04 eN-040429
Mis-Managers: Employee Challenges 6
05/13/04 eN-040513
Managing "Monkeys"
05/04/06
eN-060504
Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves!
07/06/06
eN-060706
If You Want It Bad, You'll Get It . . . Bad!
10/05/06
eN-061005
No Job Is Hard For The Person Who Doesn't Have To Do It!
12/07/06
eN-061207
Stop Picking The Flysh!t Out Of The Pepper!
02/08/07
eN-070208 Embarrassment Rules The World?
04/05/07
eN-070405
Showing Progress vs. Making Progress Syndrome
06/07/07
eN-070607
Shield Your Troops!
12/06/07
eN-071206
You Reap What You Sow!
06/05/08
eN-080605
Fornicatum non Humoratum!
Marketing Product Definition
07/03/03 eN-030703
Product Definition: Define What It Is and What It Isn't!
07/17/03 eN-030717
Write It Down and Sign It Off!
Development Methodology / Process
07/31/03 eN-030731
Development Methodology: Too Little, Too Much, or
"Just Right"?
08/28/03 eN-030828
Development Methodology Basics: Stages of Development
09/11/03 eN-030911
Development Methodology
Basics: Management of Development
09/25/03 eN-030925
Development Methodology: Requirements
10/09/03 eN-031009
Development Methodology: Architecture
10/23/03 eN-031023
Development Methodology: Failing to Plan Means You Are
Planning to Fail!
05/27/04 eN-040527
Development Methodology: Build -- to Last
06/10/04 eN-040610
Development Methodology: Test -- to Verify
06/24/04 eN-040624
Development Methodology: Release -- to Generate
Revenues!
07/08/04 eN-040708
Development Methodology: Support -- to Keep Happy
Customers!
12/08/05
eN-051208
The Inmates Are Running The Asylum!
01/05/06
eN-060105
How Do I Get This D@#% Thing To Work!
07/03/08
eN-080703
The Costs of Being "Free"
Project Management
07/22/04 eN-040722
Project Management: What Gets Measured Gets Done!
08/05/04 eN-040805
Project Management Proverbs
09/02/04 eN-040902
Project Management: Planning -- Well Begun is Half Done
11/04/04 eN-041104
Project Planning: Plan Based On What You Do Know, and On
What You Don't!
03/03/05 eN-050303
Project Management: When Bad Things Happen to Good
Projects
10/06/05 eN-051006
Project Management: Here Comes The Bride!
06/08/06
eN-060608
Unrealistic Expectations
05/03/07
eN-070503
Sunny Day Scenarios
10/04/07
eN-071004
The Schedule Estimate Extortion Game
Quality Management
10/07/04 eN-041007
Quality By Design!
05/05/05 eN-050505
Make Quality a Full Member of Your Team!
08/03/06
eN-060803 You Only Get One Chance To Make A Good First Impression!
Technical Writing
11/02/06
eN-061102
RTFM! - Read The Friggin' Manual! - An Ode to Technical Writers
Release Engineering
Bottleneck Identification and
Elimination
12/03/04 eN-041202
Bottlenecks: Concentrate on Fixing What's Critical!
Sustaining Engineering
01/06/05 eN-050106
Sustaining Engineering: The Care & Feeding of What
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