Author: Chelsi Hardin

5 Tips for a Successful Post-Mortem

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What’s the first thought that crosses your mind when you see that post-mortem meeting invitation appear in your inbox after a project is completed? Anxiety? Dread? Understandable. The word “post-mortem” itself even sounds scary, but it doesn’t have to be! Two ODEA team members spent two days getting smarter at the Digital PM Summit hosted by the Bureau of Digital in Memphis, Tennessee. Their favorite presentation was “Finessing your Retrospective” by the brilliant Patrice Embry because post-mortems are something we’re trying to be better about implementing at ODEA. Patrice gave some amazingly easy and simple ways to make a post-mortem READ MORE >>

The Power of Treadmill Thoughts

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You’re on the treadmill. Your blood is pumping, sweat is running down your face and your brain is flooded with endorphins. In that moment, the answer to a week-long problem suddenly comes to you. Here at ODEA, we call those “treadmill thoughts”. Many of us experience “AH-HA” moments when doing something monotonous like taking a shower, running (or walking!) on a treadmill, or even going for a long drive. Why is that?? Because we are so curious as to why this happens to us, we did a little research. It turns out there is an actual science behind this phenomenon. Professor READ MORE >>