Posts Tagged ‘management’

Organizational Empathy

by Larry Marturano

In a previous post, I talked about what I called “disciplinary empathy” – the ability to get out of one’s acculturated box and see problems from the point of view of other peoples’ expertise and training.  I made the observation that people I’ve run across with high disciplinary empathy are remarkably innovative in teams.  Because [...]

T-Shaped Teams

by Larry Marturano

I heard once that our biggest mistakes buy us our most meaningful insights. Not that it’s very fun, mind you. But it’s true, we do learn from our mistakes. And for those of us who are not airline pilots or surgeons, they can be positive, career-changing insights. When I was first putting teams together as [...]

Shelley Wood

by Shelley Wood

Shelley brings a breadth of business, design, training, and Contextual Design expertise to projects, with more than 15 years of experience in the high technology industry. One of her primary responsibilities at InContext is to provide side-by-side coaching and training for client teams as they use Contextual Design for their projects, products, and deliverables. Shelley [...]

Kelley Wagg

by Kelley Wagg

Kelley brings over 22 years of experience in marketing and business analysis including product management, system requirements definition, competitive analysis, and go-to-market strategies. He has worked in the high technology field with both hardware and software companies, bringing customer knowledge into the organization and applying that understanding to product development and business strategies. Kelley’s experience [...]

David Rondeau

by David Rondeau

David has 17 years of design experience that spans graphic, visual, interaction, and user experience design in a variety of media. Since 2001, he has been the Design Chair at InContext, overseeing designs produced at the company, improving the company’s design process, coaching and providing design expertise for project teams, and participating as a team [...]

Larry Marturano

by Larry Marturano

Larry brings both a passion for Contextual Design and a rich multi-disciplinary skillset to his work at InContext, built upon over twenty years of user-centered design and technology development in the communications industry. Larry applies his project management, user-centered design and technical skills in matching clients’ strategic needs with InContext’s innovative coaching and design services, [...]

Eli Wylen

by Eli Wylen

Eli draws upon broad experience with the timely delivery of software systems to drive the processes behind Contextual Design. He has managed small and large engineering teams in the creation of web-based applications, back office systems, database applications, consumer shrink wrap software and middleware. Eli ensures that InContext’s projects are well managed, meet client’s expectations [...]

Nancy Fike

by nancy

Nancy has over 20 years of experience in the software industry. She joined InContext in 2001 to work on tool development, supporting the design teams. In 2003, Nancy became a member of the design teams, using her project-leading skills and Contextual Design techniques to complete client design projects. In addition, she has worked on a [...]