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DPL Reading List – May 5, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Performing a Project Premortem – “Although many project teams engage in prelaunch risk analysis, the premortem’s prospective hindsight approach offers benefits that other methods don’t. Indeed, the premortem doesn’t just help teams to identify potential problems early on. It also reduces…
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Don’t Be So Business
“Business is business and business must grow…” – The Lorax (Dr. Seuss) We all take business so serious. We focus on little numbers. We get all obtuse over odd details. People often want to take the fun out of work. In this blog post I am going to argue that by focusing on just three…
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DPL Reading List – April 28, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Responding to Feedback You Disagree With – “Receiving feedback well doesn’t mean you have to take the feedback. Being good at receiving feedback means just that: that you receive it. That you hear it. That you work to understand it. That…
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Don’t Panic Labs Named A “Best Place To Work” In Lincoln
Software design and engineering firm Don’t Panic Labs was recognized as one of Lincoln’s Best Places to Work at an award luncheon on April 27th at the Cornhusker Hotel. The company was recognized in the Small company category by Woods & Aitken LLP, the Lincoln Journal Star, and the Lincoln Human Resource Management Association, founders…
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Lab Reaction: Connected cows: An actually useful example of the Internet of Things (seriously)
A minor confession that’ll probably not come as a surprise to those that know me best. I’m addicted to the odd and/or extraordinary ways people have chosen to use IoT implementations. So, when I saw a startup with the name of Moocall and that it was tagged under IoT, how could I possibly not love…
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A Look Back at ng-conf 2017
It is hard to believe that it was already two weeks ago that Andrew Tarr and I were in Salt Lake City attending ng-conf 2017. I have to say that it was a great conference and I learned even more than I had anticipated in the three days we were there. The format of the…
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Helpful Sales & Marketing That’s Actually Helpful
It’s easy to have a negative reaction when we hear the words “marketing” and “sales”. But why does this happen? We’ve all bought a product that didn’t live up to the hype or our expectations; were annoyed by the pushy sales-guy trying to earn a commission; or were perplexed by the maddening string of “sales”,…
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DPL Reading List – April 21, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Learning to Think Like a Computer – “Consciously or not, this next generation may be effortlessly absorbing the computational thinking skills so many covet, and in the process refining what we mean by digital native.” Everyone is a designer. Get over it….
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Growing with Traction
Over the past year, Don’t Panic Labs has been shifting toward a different method of focusing our meetings, leadership, and growth by implementing EOS Traction. As part of this, our leadership team meets every week for an L10 Meeting. As part of these meetings, we recap the employee and company Headlines from the previous week,…
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DPL Reading List – April 14, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Housing Go – Behind the Screens (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “Redesign of our mobile website provided us the opportunity to revamp the code base to push performance to the max. With the technological advancement and improved capabilities…
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