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Articles

• Is the Value Worth the Risk?
  
• Protecting Your Software Investment in Case of a Merger or Acquisition
  
• Check out the Reference Point article “Eileen and Wayne Strider on Building and Managing Technical Teams” in the Nov/Dec 2002 (Vol. 4, Issue 6) of STQE Magazine.
  http://www.stickyminds.com/r.asp?F=DART_6184
  
• What Makes Information Useful?
  
• A Self-Esteem Workout
  
• What To Do When What You're Doing Isn't Working
  
• Leading Projects in Stressful and Chaotic Situations
  
• Corporate Shenanigans
  
• Troubled Times
  
• Check out the article "Getting Results" by Kathleen Melymuka and Julia King in the April 22, 2002 issue of Computerworld Online Magazine. This Q&A article pits Wayne against another project management guru answering the same set of questions. The article's web site address is: http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/roi/story/0,10801,70240,00.html
  
• Managers and the Helpitis Malady
  
• Behaviors That Foretell Project Trouble
  
• Improving Projects by Communicating What's Below the Surface
  
• Appreciative Inquiry: A Powerful Project Leadership Tool
  
• Check out the article "How to Kill an Enterprise Project!" by Ben Worthen in the January 2002 issue of CIO Magazine. See the quotes from Eileen. The magazine's web site address is www.cio.com.
  
• How Did I Get So Jaded?
  
• Project Reviews: Getting to the Heart of the Matter, Part 3
  
• A "Hudson's Bay Start"
  
• What Is It You Want from Management?
  
• Project Reviews: Getting to the Heart of the Matter, Part 2
  
• Project Reviews: Getting to the Heart of the Matter
  
• When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get...Gentle?
  
• Learning About Yourself: A Powerful Leadership Tool
  
• T-Shirts Are Not Enough: Appropriate Project Attire
  
• Substitutes for Time
  
• A Different Kind of Family - Reconstruction Lessons - for the Participants and the Guide
  
• Finding the Energy: A Powerful Project Tool
  
• Dealing With a "Difficult" Person
  
• Appreciation: A Powerful Project Leadership Tool
  
• Pesky Project Soft Stuff a.k.a. Dealing With Feelings
  
• The Zeroeth Step for IT Project Leaders
  
• Check out the cover article of the July/August 1999 Contract Professional magazine, "Making the Team!" See the quotes and picture of Wayne and Eileen.
  
• Packaged Software Indigestion
  
• The CIO Behind the Curtain: A Classic Tale
  
• What Does the Cake Icon Mean?
  
• What's That Squiggle in Our Logo?
  
• Giving Back: MiddleHaven