Does the combination of a juicy steak and awesome technology appeal to you? Last week I was invited to attend a Work Smart luncheon by Workfront. I love to work smart and I love lunch, so I agreed to attend. The Capital Grille venue in Boston was great. And they executed perfectly. Here are some reflections on the seminar.
Dessert was delicious
First of all the food. OK, so I’m a foodie, I admit it. They did this up right, there was nothing shrimpy about the jumbo shrimp cocktail, liver pate, a delicious salad, a 12-ounce bone-in dry-aged New York sirloin. (The more words needed to describe your steak, the better, right?) and then a lovely selection of desserts including an amazing coconut cream pie. Sorry to the bosses out there, if you were expecting productivity in the early afternoon, that’s impossible because we all left in a food coma! (Oops, I’m the boss. Sorry, self!)
OK on to the technology and the other 50% of why I went. Workfront added an Agile module to their project planning system. It has a nice dashboard, and it supports a full agile workflow including backlog, stories and a KanBan burndown report In addition, it supports a combined waterfall and agile approach, something Jerry Hyde, Workfront account exec, calls it Water-gile. I think that is appropriate. Continue reading “Steak & Tech – Work Smart Luncheon by Workfront”
