Your path to business agility
I experienced my first small earthquake (a 4.7 magnitude on the Richter scale) in Vancouver, over the Christmas holiday. I didn’t even realize it was happening, since I was sleeping. This got me thinking about planning, not only for my family’s safety, but also in general. As a developer, planning was key to the Agile...
Banking is an old business. But in the past year, the rapid adoption of financial services innovation technology has catapulted banking, insurance, and financial leaders into the now. In fact, researchers are saying that 2016 is set to be a year of massive disruption for this sector, as leaders search for new ways to approach...
You’re probably familiar with Gantt charts, which show project tasks, their duration, and their completion dates. For a specific project, project managers and executives use Gantt charts to quickly review upcoming activities. When reviewing a portfolio of projects, project managers sometimes continue to use Gantt charts, adding upcoming tasks for all projects to a single...
The IT PMO’s work is a Catch-22. Praised one day for doing an exemplary job of guiding projects to completion on time and on budget, only to realize that this metric is no longer enough and then suffer from a lack of perceived value. Reports for IT PMOs are a given, but what should those reports...
Happy New Year, readers! Welcome to the first 2016 weekly roundup of innovation links, where we feature a carefully curated selection of our favorite content on innovation, crowdsourcing, and more from around the web. Here are this week’s top 10 new discoveries. 1. A New Blueprint for Collaborative Innovation Who it’s from: Doug Collins The...
According to Forrester: 77% of information workers use email to communicate internally 76% use it to share information with external partners 26% are on email at least several times a day 53% are on it constantly Not surprisingly, these interruption-driven activities cut the time devoted to an actual task to a mere 18%. The antidote...
Over the course of 2015 I got exposed to many companies going through Lean software delivery transformations–some very successful, but many less so. Tasktop’s customer base grew dramatically in 2014 and that growth accelerated in 2015. So I decided to put conference presentations on pause and instead spend more of 2015 on the road meeting...
Recently, I had a lunch with a newly-appointed Project Management Office (PMO) leader for a major retailer here in SF. He was just hired to reinstate the PMO, processes and tools for his organization. He shared his approach to this exciting new challenge and from past experience expressed what he thinks works vs. what doesn’t....
We have all heard the story about How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Every organization has a “Grinch” of their own, most specifically a project portfolio management (PPM) Grinch. The Grinch is the naysayer, the one who is always skeptical about portfolio management benefits, the one who cannot open their eyes beyond the initial costs and...
Every project manager knows that the role comes with responsibilities. An outmost focus on getting the team onboard, reaching goals within budget and delivering value towards stakeholders is common ground. Everyone has their own unique and highly individual way of getting things done, but the mechanics of a successful project are often shared by many...
