Your path to business agility
The year was 2001. Seventeen software developers gathered together at the Snowbird ski resort in Utah to ski, network and discuss ways to improve what had been until then, standard processes for software development. The soon-to-be founding fathers and mothers of agile development were tired of the late deliveries, blown budgets and unsatisfied customers that...
Remote workforces are increasingly becoming the norm, with more than eight million Americans now working from home. Though remote work can create some obstacles for the traditional way teams and offices work, it also presents new opportunities to enhance business agility for those who are willing to embrace it. This has been greatly helped by...
The British government is reveling in the news that UK employment continues to break records and shatter the predictions about the state of the nation’s economic health. Not only has the UK employment rate reached a record high, but the country also posted its 17th straight month of wage growth being higher than inflation, raising...
Let’s start with this: if the title of this article implied that the next few hundred words would be an all-out attack on the use of Scrum in agile marketing, then rest assured (or conversely, sorry to disappoint), that’s not the game plan. Scrum works quite well for some agile marketing teams. Some, that is...
With more and more organizations now having centralized project management offices (PMOs), project portfolio management has also become more prevalent as a role. Project portfolio management is about having strategic oversight over many or even all of an organization’s projects, allowing greater alignment with the company’s strategic objectives. The goal of effective project portfolio management...
No person is an island, and even the very title “Project Manager” would suggest that you are in charge of managing more than just yourself. So why, then, is it often so difficult for managers to hand off tasks to the rest of the team? Work overload is a very common phenomenon, especially among management,...
Britain’s previous issues with temporary unemployment offering little security to the nation’s workers seem to have found a solution, at least for the moment. The country’s booming economy – despite the uncertainty surrounding Brexit – has continued to surge forward, taking more employees into steady, permanent employment. Temporary unemployment falling With the unemployment rate falling...
Diversity and inclusivity are big talking points across the world, from Hollywood to elected representation. As we have already noted with the UK’s efforts to address its national gender pay gap, there is a drive to create a more diverse and representative perspective at all levels of work and society in general. This approach has...
“There will be a time when I will be President of the US and I will remember… any founder that didn’t have the capacity to understand culturally what we’re doing.” Kanye West There’s no doubt that Kanye knows how to communicate through his music — he has numerous accolades and tens of millions of sold...
Stakeholders have a major effect on projects, which is no big surprise seeing as projects also affect them, as we’ve looked at previously. However, not all stakeholders perform the same roles or want the same things. This is why stakeholder management is so crucial to ensuring that relationships are maintained and support for the project...
