Leading the conversation on digital connected work
Do you ever feel like you’re being asked to do battle with more and more projects with fewer and fewer resources? Don’t fall on your own sword! Look to the great military strategists – from Sun Tzu (500 BC) to Napoleon – for how to wage war with limited resources, and learn from these resource...
Whether you’re a cook using a recipe to make a new entree, a kid using instructions to build a new lego set, or a developer using a code example to learn a new language, guides can save your sanity and help you learn faster. The same is true for creating a new Kanban board or...
There are trends, and then there are transformations. In the open innovation space, one regularly leads to the other. Read these three in-depth industry reports to find out the new rules of the collaborative economy, why the United States is leading the way in turning customer feedback into innovative products, and what challenges are soon...
“Hey Percy, what happened to the two medical writers who were supposed to start work with us this week?” “Oh, you didn’t hear, Luke? They were pulled to work on project PDE_311 at the last minute.” “Ugh, just like the bio-statistician that we were supposed to have last month!” said an exasperated Luke. “That’s the...
Halloween is around the corner, but ghouls, goblins, and ghosts shouldn’t worry you. You have a deadly horror lurking in the halls, hiding in the shadows of your conference rooms, and trapped in computers waiting to spring on you when you least expect it – spreadsheets. These spreadsheets are creating massacres across the industry, cannibalizing...
We are all team members. Sometimes in bootstrapped groups, fighting impossible deadlines. Sometimes dealing with lots of external partners and stakeholders. We are juggling budgets, large and small. Sometimes as assigned leaders. Different roles, conditions and challenges require different sets of skills and work tools. Undoubtably, we share the same goals in an organization, department...
Project management tools are supposed to drive productivity, but we know from experience that this does not always happen by default. Armed with technology and communications that make them accessible 24/7, teams across the enterprise are working differently than they did even just a few years ago. People work from home, on the road or...
We’ve all heard that a failure to plan is a plan to fail, right? But how do you successfully execute on your portfolio strategy when internal, external factors and even unplanned demand impact your portfolios? Are you able to take these unpredictable forces and re-assess how you are executing on your strategy? This dilemma was...
It’s been a while since Java 8 was released. It brought us great additions like lambdas, streams, optionals, and many more. Here at Tasktop we do mostly Java programming and are focused on increasing our productivity every day. Since we are working with Java 8, a bunch of Eclipse templates were created that make developing...
Back in 2002, I didn’t have a clue about how much Agile would change the world of software delivery. But Agile did feel right; so my small team at the New York Stock Exchange went for it. Why? Honestly, I’m not sure we totally knew why – as I said, it just felt right –...
