SPaMCAST 24 - Edelson, Coaching, Specialization - a podcast by Thomas M. Cagley Jr

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SPaMCAST 24 -
Edelson, Coaching, Specialization








** Note – Traceability paper will be
out on the feed this week. **








Show 24 features an interview with Marilyn Edelson,
a Principal at IT Decisions Coaching LLC.  The interview covers project management,
leadership, the similarities, differences and how coaching can make both better.  This was a wide ranging interview with lots
of tips and take “aways"!




Marilyn Edelson, cofounder, is a Master Certified
Coach, entrepreneur and certified Best Year Yet® program leader with over 25
years experience in behavioral management. She has has been coaching
executives, managers and corporate teams for the past 10 years and was voted
'Top 10 Coach 2007' by Women's Business Boston (a division of The Boston
Herald). She has a strong behavioral background and easily integrates the
principals of emotional and social intelligence with the structured, measurable
results oriented approach provided by the Best Year Yet® system and DiSC
behavioral and values assessment tools. She teaches, mentors and trains professional
coaches, and is the coaching consultant for the first National Institute of
Health study on the efficacy of coaching in healthcare. She holds a Master of
Science degree from Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

 








Here are the links for ITDC and Marilyn!






IT Decisions Coaching - www.itdecisionscoaching.com/






ITDC email:  info@itdecisionscoaching.com






Marilyn’s email: 
m.edelson@itdecisionscoaching.com




The essay this
week is titled “Specialization: Making It Work For You!" The essay seeks to
answer the question, “when did process, documentation and certifications become
the goal rather than a path for attaining project success?"   This
frightening question caused me to relate two seemingly different concepts
during quite times of contemplation over the past few weeks.  The first
was the impact of hyper-specialization in the process improvement world (and by
extension anywhere it is used) and the second was a need to refocus process improvement
groups on helping organizations deliver project results.  This could be scary stuff but solvable and
solvable in a way that won’t break the bank. 
The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com.  Comments and corrections are welcome.

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are a number of ways to share your thoughts . .













 
Future
Events and the next . . .






I
have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008.  The first is “Getting Performance Improvement
Out of Your Software Process Improvement" on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM
- 11:30 AM EDT






And
the second is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software
Process Improvement" May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time






More
information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/






Next
Software Process and Measurement Cast:






The next
Software Process and Measurement Cast features an interview with Grady Booch chief
scientist of Rational Software (now a part of IBM).  We will discuss structure, design,
architecture, agility and discipline amongst other things.  This is another of those interviews where you
will want to take notes!

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