Your path to business agility
While deliberately wasting time at work is actually very rare in most professional settings, despite what senior management might think, there are many small and subtle ways that both you and your team might be losing time unnecessarily which can add up to be real project-killers. The biggest timewasters can be difficult to spot as...
Today’s world of work is fraught with complexity and an ever-increasing need for speed. This is simply a reality organizations must come to realize. However, these conditions cause planning deficiencies to be magnified. In this blog series, we will be discussing five types of planning that are crucial to delivering on strategy with a dynamic...
In case you missed our previous post on the subject, here’s a quick summary of what you need to know about the upcoming change to Atlassian Jira Cloud’s APIs to avoid disruption to your software delivery value stream. 1. Atlassian’s new approach to user identification is driven by the GDPR The changes to Atlassian Cloud...
Product innovation in manufacturing on a global scale tends to throw a wet blanket on innovation. Whether it’s a disconnect over complex supply chains, alarm over new regulations, or uncertainty about the direction of product roadmaps, innovation can often be sidelined until it’s much too late in the game. Companies miss the opportunity to bring...
Everyone wants to scale agile—few know how to actually do it. The pressure is on to make this transition: Leaders see agile-at-scale as the key to digitally transforming their businesses and moving lightning fast to create the innovative products and services that will keep them competitive. Indeed, Deloitte found that becoming more agile is the...
fThe realities of life in the UK after Brexit are beginning to become much clearer as the country gets closer to the March 29, 2019 “divorce date” from the world’s largest trading bloc. Much of what Brexit will mean for citizens of the UK is still dependent on the type of deal that will be...
“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...
