Your path to business agility
“Cybersecurity is a software “arms race” between companies managing IT and software infrastructures that protect sensitive data and bad actors who create infrastructure and software to break through those protections.” – Dr. Mik Kersten, Project to Product: How To Survive and Thrive in Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework™ The RSA Conference (March...
Getting a team working at the maximum of its potential is a manager’s primary role and a very tough one. So it’s not surprising that a lot of management literature talks about motivation tips and creating high performing teams. Sometimes though it can be the things we do without thinking, rather than what we are...
In our professional lives it can be very easy to get caught up in the success or failure of particular projects or the organizations we work for, rather than taking note of how well we are keeping to our own personal goals. Just because a project you are working on is performing badly doesn’t necessarily...
“Lack of knowledge…that’s the problem” – W. Edwards Deming. Not understanding a situation can make the best of us feel anxious and frustrated. Sleepless nights, long contemplative walks along the sea wall, drawing on windows a la John Nash. Uncertainty can plague any person and workforce. Sure, at a team-level we can implement mechanisms for communication...
Project roadmaps have recently become one of the most popular tools in the workplace. As organizations deal with many different types of work—be it the industry, scale, or people—it’s no surprise that they have multiple tools to get work done. For a long time, the concept of “project plans” has been the most dominant and...
This blog is part of a series based on tips for the PMO to support agile transformation. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading part one first, “Driving Agile at Scale: The Agile PMO,” which you can find here. To facilitate their agile transformation, PMOs need to provide project managers and teams with greater autonomy...
The pursuit of creativity has become one of the most universal, yet confounding, challenges for organizations. The trait exists, at some level, within every member of a team, but the tricks to freeing it can be elusive. The key to unlocking it is trust. We are more likely to float new ideas when we know...
In part seven of this series, we presented a sense of managing the product development process. In part eight, the last in the series “The Complexity of Managing Smarter, More Connected Products,” we’re examining product portfolio management best practices as a recap of the entire series. In it, we’ll cover key takeaways from the series,...
Key performance indicators are the metrics that project managers use to measure their team’s performance and also to relate progress to other project stakeholders. The speed and ease with which a PM can ascertain a project’s health, whether good or bad, and keep other relevant senior executives or clients updated is of vital importance, the...
The side-effects and consequences of the Fourth Industrial Revolution are coming clearer into view and their effect on wage growth and labor welfare have been noted by the Bank of England’s chief economist, Andy Haldane. The effects of automation, he declared, could knock 1% per year off wage growth for UK workers, in all likelihood...
