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Managing your career, skills, and knowledge base across organizations and across time PMI Chicagoland – Career Development Day December 10, 2016 Jim McGee, Ph.D. [email protected]

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Managing your career, skills, and knowledge base across organizations and across time

PMI Chicagoland – Career Development DayDecember 10, 2016

Jim McGee, [email protected]

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HSPALTA: Hire Smart People and Leave Them Alone

Tom Davenport

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Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

Alan Kay

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Permanent Whitewater

Then• Organizational Tenure• Visible artifacts• Long knowledge half-

life• Stable heuristics

Now• Organizational

complexity• Invisibility of

knowledge work • Shrinking knowledge

half-life• Complexity defeats

heuristics

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Intake Sense-making ArtifactsPeople - Thinkers - Community of Practice - Community of Interest - Devil’s AdvocatesPointers - URLs - RSS feeds - Social Media - JSONPaper - Books - Magazines

Patterns - Finding - Matching - Inventing - Imposing

Conversations - Sync/Async - F2F/Virtual

Visualizing - Sketching - Diagramming - Mapping

Blog Posts

Presentations

Documents

Correspondence

Visualizations - Diagrams - Graphs - Maps - Sketches - Pictures

Monitor—Evolve—Adapt—Tune

Supporting Concepts and PracticesRepresentationsHygiene PracticesConcepts

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Working PapersDeliverablesIntermediate representationsDigital Footprint

Naming ConventionsNamespacesVersion ControlCrap DetectionSourcingFiltering

BookmarkingTaggingFolksonomyTaxonomyPass by ReferenceIndirectionGranularity

Supporting Concepts and PracticesRepresentationsHygiene PracticesConcepts

Observable WorkNarrating Your WorkDomain of One’s OwnSystems of RecordReusePortable formats- Self describing- Human readable- Non-proprietaryTool ChainsWorking Set

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How it can look in practice

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Working PapersDeliverablesIntermediate representationsDigital Footprint

Naming ConventionsNamespacesVersion ControlCrap DetectionSourcingFiltering

BookmarkingTaggingFolksonomyTaxonomyPass by ReferenceIndirectionGranularity

Supporting Concepts and PracticesRepresentationsHygiene PracticesConcepts

Observable WorkNarrating Your WorkDomain of One’s OwnSystems of RecordReusePortable formats- Self describing- Human readable- Non-proprietaryTool ChainsWorking Set

Promising places to start

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One example—Jerry’s Brain

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Intellectual origins

Douglas Engelbart

• 1962 – Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework

• 1968 - Mother of all Demos

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We have not succeeded in answering all of your problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.Car Talk

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Individual

Social

CAD drawing Calendar

Contract Conversation

Email

Instant message

Mindmap Napkin sketch

Spreadsheet Story

Whiteboard diagram

“Stuff”

Structure

WikiNotebook

File DirectoryShared Drive RSS FeedBlog

Book DatabaseIntranet “Containers”

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Individual

Social

Annual Report

Block diagram Blog

Blog post

Blueprint Book

Bookmark Business card

CAD drawing Calendar

Group Calendar

Case study

Catalog

Concept map

Contract Conversation

Course

Database query

Dialog map

Email

Encyclopedia

Equation

Graph

Instant message

Interview notes

Library

Mindmap

Napkin sketch

Note

Org chart

Outline

Performance review

Phone call

Phone directory

PowerPoint presentation

Press release

Proposal

Regression model

Resume

Rolodex

RSS feed

Search results

Speech

Spreadsheet

Story

Syllabus

Term sheet

Tweet

Voice mail

Webpage Work plan

Whiteboard diagram

YouTube video

Knowledge “Stuff”

Structure

Notebook Binder

File DirectoryFile Folder

Shared DriveDVDThumbdriveDaytimer

Blackberry

RSS FeedBlogWiki

Book eBook DatabaseKnowledge “Containers”Intranet Data

Warehouse

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Individual

Social

Annual Report

Block diagram Blog

Blog post

Blueprint Book

Bookmark Business card

CAD drawing Calendar

Group Calendar

Case study

Catalog

Concept map

Contract Conversation

Course

Database query

Dialog map

Email

Encyclopedia

Equation

Graph

Instant message

Interview notes

Library

Mindmap

Napkin sketch

Note

Org chart

Outline

Performance review

Phone call

Phone directory

PowerPoint presentation

Press release

Proposal

Regression model

Resume

Rolodex

RSS feed

Search results

Speech

Spreadsheet

Story

Syllabus

Term sheet

Tweet

Voice mail

Webpage Work plan

Whiteboard diagram

YouTube video

Knowledge “Stuff”

Structure

Notebook Binder

File DirectoryFile Folder

Shared DriveDVDThumbdriveDaytimer

Blackberry

RSS FeedBlogWiki

Book eBook DatabaseKnowledge “Containers”Intranet Data

Warehouse

Tools perspective

Web browser PowerPoint ExcelMindmaps Blogs

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Individual

Social

Annual Report

Block diagram Blog

Blog post

Blueprint Book

Bookmark Business card

CAD drawing Calendar

Group Calendar

Case study

Catalog

Concept map

Contract Conversation

Course

Database query

Dialog map

Email

Encyclopedia

Equation

Graph

Instant message

Interview notes

Library

Mindmap

Napkin sketch

Note

Org chart

Outline

Performance review

Phone call

Phone directory

PowerPoint presentation

Press release

Proposal

Regression model

Resume

Rolodex

RSS feed

Search results

Speech

Spreadsheet

Story

Syllabus

Term sheet

Tweet

Voice mail

Webpage Work plan

Whiteboard diagram

YouTube video

Knowledge “Stuff”

Structure

Notebook Binder

File DirectoryFile Folder

Shared DriveDVDThumbdriveDaytimer

Blackberry

RSS FeedBlogWiki

Book eBook DatabaseKnowledge “Containers”Intranet Data

Warehouse

Strategy ComponentsHygieneFile namesTimestampsStandard MetadataVersion Control

ContextualizingTrip Reports/Diary/ BlogNarrating WorkDigital PortfoliosTimelines/Chronology

Tagging/MetadataUser generated taggingControlled vocabulariesDirectoriesSocial Networks – InternalSocial Networks – External

Solving for PatternAfter Action ReviewsNarrating WorkDigital PortfoliosIssue/Opportunity Threads