R&D Project Engineer: SPRINT Services: SPRINT Book - how to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp, with John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz:

 

R&D Project Engineer - SPRINT Services! Test your Product or Service in 5 Days

What's the big challenge you need to solve?

Not enough time?

Stuck trying to solve your problem?

Location solved with Google Meet and online presentation with guidance.

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Email: ericsutherland@btws.co.uk

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Background

Gained leadership and management from being attached to the forces for 5 years,

Elected FInstD in May 1987,

10-day MBA course by Cranfield School of Management,

Ex-council member of the APM 1994 - 1996 and

10 weekly modules of MSc Technology course with IBM Managers 80% of the class.

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You can keep all your customers' contact data, unlike Amazon who controls it 

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Working From Home Kit: Always have 2 ways of producing your deliverables: Hewlett Packard Win 10 Professional PC Box: Hewlett Packard Chromebook Laptop:

Working From Home Kit:

Hewlett Packard Win 10 Professional PC Box,

- 8G Memory, 1TG Hard drive, Backup Flash drive,

- Intel Modem Card 2.4G / 5G, NVIDIA Video Card - HDMI Port,

- 32" Monitor, Wireless Keyboard, and Mouse Pair, Game mouse Mat,

- Logitech Webcam and Speakers,

- Microsoft Office 365 with OneDrive.

Hewlett Packard Chromebook Laptop,

- HDMI Port, Built in Speakers, and HD Camera,

- 4G Memory, 32G Flash Drive, Backup USB drive,

 Workspace with Google Drive, Google domain (btws.co.uk), Blog, Website, and My Business. 

Hewlett Packard AiO Wireless Printer, Scanner and Copier.

 

Broadband

1G Cable or Wireless for moving around home.

Home phone with 30 minutes answer machine.

4G Mobile Smartphone

3G Mobile Smartphone (backup)

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New website: Erics Writing Projects

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Kiva Microfinance

My lending started 25 years ago and has been interesting and eye-opening. The Stats that follow cover both personal and business loans.

Business Activities 55/163 

Lent to Fishing activity with x2 contributor in Fiji.

Integration and the Road to Mastery: Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business: 9 of 9 articles

Integration and the Road to Mastery:

Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business 9 of 9 articles

Introduction ● Director Role ● Producer Role ● Co-ordinator Role ● Monitor Role ● Mentor Role ●  Facilitator Role ● Innovator Role ● Broker Role ● Integration and the Road to Mastery

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Becoming-Master-Manager-Competing-Approach/dp/0470284668

[2] www.apm.org.uk Association of Project Managers (APM). Ex-council member.

Introduction: The article based on the “Competency Framework”[1]. Its evolution and eight roles that a Manager should be doing day-to-day. Explain these in each article, this being the ninth of nine. The hard part is honesty and self-analysis and doing each step.

Integration and the Road to Mastery: Learn about Yourself. Develop and Install a Change Strategy.

Learn about Yourself: Do a self-assessment against all the competencies. Locate an online course covering each role and/or read books.

Assessment: The Personality Test was an easy route.

Learning: Doing Judo in my early teens helped.

Analysis: Reading a book drives analysis, with what would I do.

Practice: It is a lifelong challenge, and everyone changes with age and experience.

Application: Doing what you like and helping others.

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Personality type: Executive (ESTJ-A)

Individual traits: Extraverted – 63%, Observant – 69%,

Thinking – 57%, Judging – 67%, Assertive – 74% Role: Sentinel Strategy: People Mastery

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Develop and Install a Change Strategy: Use a journal to track areas for improvement. Identify role models to study and read their books.

Assessment: Changed from working with other people.

Learning: Observed differences in culture from working and socializing in different countries.

Analysis: Reading, writing, personality, nature, and survival TV programmes all drive it.

Practice: Only with people I know.

Application: Varies with the channels of communication.

Kiva Microfinance

My lending started 25 years ago and has been interesting and eye-opening. The Stats that follow cover both personal and business loans.

By country 47/75

Seeing the biggest countries listed with China and India. They have a long way to go. But developed countries like Canada, Costa Rica, Kenya, and the United States need to get their house in order. 

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Broker Role: Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business: 8 of 9 articles

Broker Role:

Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business 8 of 9 articles

Introduction ● The Director Role ● The Producer Role ● The Co-ordinator Role ● The Monitor Role ● The Mentor Role ● The Facilitator Role ● The Innovator Role ● The Broker Role ● Integration and the Road to Mastery

[1] Becoming a Master Manager

[2] www.apm.org.uk Association of Project Managers (APM). Ex-council member.

[3] How to solve Big Problems in just 5 days

Introduction: The article based on the book [1] a “Competency Framework”. Its evolution and eight roles that a Manager should be doing day-to-day. Explained in each article, this being the eighth of nine. The hard part is honesty and self-analysis and doing each step.

Broker Role:

Building and Maintaining a Power Base,

Negotiating Agreements and Commitment,

Presenting Ideas with Effective Oral Presentations.

Building and Maintaining a Power Base: Work with Clients, Business Partners, and Suppliers. To discover what dependencies affect their businesses.

Assessment: Listen, record, and assess comments.

Learning: To ask constructive questions related to projects current and planned.

Analysis: Helps spot opportunities.

Practice: Proposal and Tender writing.

Application: Act as information Broker.

Negotiating Agreements and Commitment: With each of these dependencies above. Match these to Projects, and deliverables to the right team.

Assessment: This will be the hard part because other projects might be in conflict.  

Learning: To adjust and still make the deliverables.

Analysis: Be honest and agreement should be easy.

Practice: From experience be able to readjust.

Application: Showing commitment wins support.

Presenting Ideas with Effective Oral Presentations: This comes with practice. And the study of good presenters.

Assessment: The contents of the project story.

Learning: How to tell the project story.

Analysis: Verbal agreement from all parties.

Practice: Speak out loud the project story to check it sounds right and to remember it.

Application: Levers all the team member's skills.

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Erics eBook/Paperback Writing Projects:

My Books and related services are listed. 

Erics eBook/Paperback Writing Projects

Feel free to contact me with any questions or leave a comment on any of my books.

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Innovator Role: Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business: 7 of 9 articles

Innovator Role:

Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business 7 of 9 articles

Introduction ● Director Role ● Producer Role ● Co-ordinator Role ● Monitor Role ● Mentor Role ●  Facilitator Role ● Innovator Role ● Broker Role ● Integration and the Road to Mastery

[1] Becoming a Master Manager

[2] www.apm.org.uk Association of Project Managers (APM). Ex-council member.

[3] How to solve Big Problems in just 5 days

Introduction: The article is based on the book [1] a “Competency Framework”. Its evolution and eight roles that a Manager should be doing day-to-day. These will be explained in each article, this being the seventh of nine. The hard part is honesty and self-analysis and doing each step.

Innovator Role: Living with Change, Creative Thinking and Managing Change.

Living with Change: This is driven by global changes in health, technology, economics, and politics.

Assessment:    The pandemic has shaken people.     

Learning:        Lockdown and WFH has made people think about changing their life’s.           

Analysis:         No commute, quiet roads, and healthier life.

Practice:          The lockdown has enabled it.

Application:    WFH and no commute are win-win and some companies that do not the change will   end up with no employees.     

 

Creative Thinking: Is turning problems upside down and thinking outside the box to find solutions. 

Assessment:    More and more people will be doing this.

Learning:        People must learn enough to be members of Sprint[3] Teams.        

Analysis:         This will lead to more productivity.          

Practice:          Coaching will aid know-how.  

Application:    Product and Service solutions in 5 days.       

 

Managing Change: Requires good Project Management [2] and working in partnership with the Client or Business Partners or Suppliers.

Assessment:    Based on obtaining a Client Brief.      

Learning:        Who does what and how to change them.

Analysis:         How to do the changes needs input and constructive questions.     

Practice:          Learn by doing.          

Application:    When required by any project.

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Facilitator Role: Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business: 6 of 9 articles

Facilitator Role:

Introduction ● Director Role ● Producer Role ● Co-ordinator Role ● Monitor Role ● Mentor Role ● Facilitator Role ● Innovator Role ● Broker Role ● Integration and the Road to Mastery

[1] Becoming a Master Manager

[2] www.apm.org.uk Association of Project Managers (APM). Ex-council member.

[3] How to solve Big Problems in just 5 days

Introduction: The article based on the book [1] a “Competency Framework”. Its evolution and eight roles that a Manager should be doing day-to-day. These explained in each article, this being the sixth of nine. The hard part is honesty and self-analysis and doing each step.

Facilitator Role: Team Building[2] , Participative Decision Making[3], and Conflict Management.

Team Building: With the Client or Business Partners or Suppliers. Helps to improve the relationships and keep communication channels open.

Assessment: Based on their responses to my views.

Learning: Giving more reasoned views.

Analysis: Making deliverables easy.

Practice: Helps the team adjust the processes.

Application:    Able to agree on the approach to each project.

Participative Decision Making: In the one-person business this is the only way forward. It helps you operate in the Virtual Team with the Client or Business Partners or Suppliers.

Assessment: Virtual Teams need member's best efforts.

Learning:     How to work with others.

Analysis: Team decisions are easy.

Practice: Members develop a better approach.

Application: We let all Team members play their part.

Conflict Management: Another hard one, that requires thought. Personal control to keep relationships working and prevent losing work.

Assessment: Changes cause conflicts.

Learning:     The Team must agree on the way forward.

Analysis: We do not want to be caught out.

Practice: Helps Team members avoid conflict.

Application: Know how to overcome conflict.

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