Advice books on academic productivity tell you to establish a writing routine, and stick to it. The experts say it’s a mistake to think you’ll get much accomplished in frenetic bursts. So why are we ...

What's a Writing Sprint? Writing Sprints are short blocks of time in which you commit to focus only on your writing. If you're trying to make progress on an article, dissertation, or other big project ...

Scrum doesn't have many hard and fast rules, but it does have one requirement for Scrum teams: Before the sprint planning event ends, they must articulate a well-thought-out sprint goal. A good sprint ...

Sprint will write down nearly US$31 billion worth of goodwill value it has carried on its books since it purchased Nextel Communications in a deal that has failed to help the No. 3 telecom firm ...

Mel Burke is a culture writer and current MA student at Johns Hopkins University. She recently took on writing full time and decided to try only working on her novel late at night. Although she was ...

Writing is an important part of what faculty do, whether it involves writing up research, applying for grants, creating curricular materials, or communicating to external constituencies. But it can be ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp said on Thursday that it might have to write off all of the $30.7 billion goodwill value from its purchase of Nextel Communications and smaller deals as it ...