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October 13, 2020

The Five Stages of Team Collaboration

Elsewhere I’ve described the ten phases of team collaboration in a range of different aspects, right up to the full unloading of 101+ ideas to help you improve your collaboration. Lately I’ve realised that these fit into the 4D process of design, as I’ve outlined before, along with an extra phase for ‘review’. Those four

September 21, 2020

Team Collaboration Book Available

I took the main ideas that people could use immediately and turned them into a book. It is good enough to use now. I realised that there are two books to do on this concept. One is the ‘longer’ version that explains the ‘why’ of the ideas, and how they can be used. There is

July 30, 2020

Team Collaboration Introduction

Introduction Every summer since June 2010 I have been working with teams of students, who are working with clients to build them a piece of software. They take everything they’ve learned about building software applications, and apply that to this project with a team of five or six students. This has had many ups and

July 22, 2020

Team Collaboration for Beginners

It’s generally acknowledged that teamwork and communication skills are important skills for employability applicable to everyone. This includes everything from presenting posters and presentations, to writing reports, as well as how you work together with others to complete the project your reporting on to others. How one ‘works as a team’ seems to be something

November 5, 2019

Facilitating Open Space for 700+ People – #SGVIE19

Last week I facilitated the open space for between 700 and 750 people of the 950 attendees at the Global Scrum Gathering in Vienna on 29 October 2019. This is a brief guide to what happened, what went into the process, and what I learned from the event. What happened On the day it all

October 17, 2019

Former Placement Student Panel Discussion

This week our industry seminars heard from a range of students, who’ve been on placements with companies. Some were gone for a year, while one went for two summers to the same company. They all shared some common perspectives of their experience. First, the company knows that you’ll not have lots of technical knowledge, so

October 8, 2019

Improving your LinkedIn Profile to Aid Your Career

This week we had Alisdair McKibben talking about how to use LinkedIn. He explained the basics of why you should maximize your benefits with good selection of words and photo. You can find more on this in the careers section of the university website https://www.abdn.ac.uk/careers/resources/index.php?action=search&search_term=linkedin. For most students this is something to regularly update during

September 30, 2019

Steve Aitken from Intelligent Plant on Placements and Interships

We had Steve Aitken from Intelligent Plant speaking to a number of students last week covering all of the years from level one to five. He covered what the company does with its ‘app store’ for industrial plants, and how they focus on developing the store and having organisations build apps to monitor their factories

September 23, 2019

CVs and Cover Letters are useful in job applications

We had another good session on careers issues with the focus on CVs and cover letters. The basics were this: a) your cv should be adapted to each role you’re applying for, and tailored for those so that one for programming will look different from one for a business analyst role as you stress different

September 11, 2019

Starting the hunt for internships by preparing your online profile

Today we started what will hopefully be a regular series of sessions with students to help prepare them for whatever they do after graduation. I wasn’t sure how many would come along. We had about 40, which was very good. The session had two goals: (a) find out who’s done what for their online profile,

Posts by Bruce A. Scharlau

The Five Stages of Team Collaboration

Team Collaboration Book Available

Team Collaboration Introduction

Team Collaboration for Beginners

Facilitating Open Space for 700+ People – #SGVIE19

Former Placement Student Panel Discussion

Improving your LinkedIn Profile to Aid Your Career

Steve Aitken from Intelligent Plant on Placements and Interships

CVs and Cover Letters are useful in job applications

Starting the hunt for internships by preparing your online profile

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