Developing a new software product/application or adding a new feature to the existing one could be overwhelming. The development team requires evaluating their initiatives shrewdly to make product development a successful task. From complex working environments to tech…
Nowadays the concept of outsourcing is a new hype in the software industry and many businesses are investing billions in outsourcing all their core and non-core product development activities. Since companies are intended to bring innovative products to the market rap…
I began developing my daily writing habit in December 2006 – over ten years ago! Since then, I have written almost every weekday, except for vacations, of course. And, I have written a ton. I also have published a lot. In 2006, when I began to write daily, I had two p…
Are you looking for a reset after a long year of teaching? Are you struggling to get back into your writing for the summer? Many academics are mentally, physically, and emotionally exhausted at the end of the academic year. So, the first step is to intentionally take s…
A question that often comes up when I do campus workshops on work/life balance is how and when busy academic parents can find time to exercise. As we get older, it becomes increasingly important for us to exercise in order to stay healthy and keep our stress levels in…
I have been traveling a lot for work lately, which is great, but it also means I need to make decisions about which invitations to accept, as well as what to ask of my hosts to make travel more feasible and enjoyable. Jet-setting around the world can be fun, but also e…
Are you ready for the semester yet? Sorry if that question provoked a panic attack, but I am sure I am not the first one to ask you. I know I have been asked at least a dozen times this month. Preparing for the semester is rarely fun, and academics seldom feel ready w…
I began my summer with a fabulous writing retreat with 21 other women in Bali. During that week of bliss, we woke up each morning, had a healthy and delicious breakfast, meditated, and then wrote until lunch. In the afternoons, we shared work with the brilliant partic…
Many academics will tell you to steer away from creating an edited volume. Yet, judging by academic catalogs, clearly, some academics continue to create edited books. Why would any academic pull together an edited volume? The reason is that there are some cases when cr…
When I started writing Get a Life, PhD , my twins were eight years old and my youngest was five. Thus, much of my blog has been from the perspective of an academic mother with elementary school children. Today, seven years after I first began blogging, my twins are fin…
One of the joys of academic life is inviting speakers to campus and getting invited to other campuses to speak. You may be an academic who is constantly jet-setting from one campus to another or you may never have received an invitation to speak at another campus. Eith…