Fissures News 20 Year Anniversary
Fissure recently trained 128 of Microsoft’s top escalation engineers from around the world utilizing Simulation Powered Learning®. Four Fissure guides led simultaneous workshops covering a three day period on Microsoft’s Redmond WA Campus. The reviews were fantastic! Citrix team members heard one of our webinars on Business Analysis and then invited us down to Florida
Read MoreFissure Guide: About John Kaman
It has been an interesting ride to 2010–sometimes bumpy, sometimes smooth, and sometimes circuitous. But always interesting! I started off my career as a co-op student in mechanical engineering at 3M Company back in 1967. This may seem to be a long time ago, but I have very fond memories of working in 3M’s Duplicating
Read MoreFutures Forecast
It’s the first of the year and time for forecasts. These are summarized from reading the Star Tribune the past few weeks. The specific author is listed after each category title. The forecasts focus for the most part on Minnesota, but most apply to all states. Some thoughts are my own(in italics & blue). Read
Read MoreA Fissure Guide – John Skovbroten
I am a 37 year survivor of the technology wars. In 1972, after completing a degree in Physics, and sampling grad school for a couple of years, I realized that I was more energized by software development than by lab research and started work as a rookie programmer at Mayo Clinic. The first phase of
Read MoreFissure News: Dealing With Change
Make sure you checkout a new feature beginning with this issue. For the next several issues one of our instructors (guides) will give you a firsthand look at their work, teaching and life experiences, and how they came to be Fissure guides. I think you will enjoy their stories and getting to know how they
Read MoreThe Importance of Hope – Mike Wold
I have a friend who unfortunately has a very negative view of life. As I was talking to him on the phone the other night it was both amazing and sad to see how many negative things he could find in the world in a short conversation – the economy, the unemployment, the terrorists, people
Read MoreA Few Closing Words – Geof Lory
Every year at this time my wife, Beth, and I get away to spend a little time together to relax, recall, reflect, and recommit. It is a special time, an annual milestone if you will, and a time to re-baseline our plan for the coming year. As is standard practice, we set some goals for
Read MoreFissure News Organizational Development
Dear Fissure Friends, I’m in an airplane returning from a client trip where I have spent the last two days working closely with a team of organizational development (OD) people. They are developing a new internal OD training program and Fissure is working with them to develop a customized OD simulation to support their program.
Read MoreLet’s Get Real – Geof Lory
I’ve been meaning to write an article that focused on testing, but somehow struggled to organize my thoughts enough to actually do it. That is ironically similar to the general approach I see to testing on most projects; it is something we are always going to get around to doing but it never really receives
Read MoreMicrosoft’s elite Global Escalation Team
In the last Fissure News we mentioned that Fissure was selected to train 100 of Microsoft’s elite Global Escalation Team members representing 22 different countries. The training was a resounding success prompting the sponsor to send us the following note: “I sent approx. 100 of my Technical Escalation Engineers through the Fissure Advanced Project Management
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