Your path to business agility
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...
Today marks one year since Project to Product was published. The book details my journey from empathizing with the frustrations of developers trying to deliver value to customers, to empathizing with the frustrations of entire organizations dealing with the onslaught of digital disruption. Helping developers was fairly straightforward, as that could be done with tools...
It’s difficult to ignore the significant changes that are happening in and to the world’s largest companies. According to a recent report by Innosight, at the current churn rate, about half of today’s S&P 500 firms will be replaced over the next 10 years. Meaning, we are sitting squarely in a period of heightened volatility...
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...
Kanban project management has gained a lot of popularity over the past few years, and for good reason. Project managers thriving in today’s fast-paced professional environment have to communicate with multiple teams from different geographical locations, track their progress, and ensure that processes are moving smoothly through their workflows. To-do lists and spreadsheets don’t cut...
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,...
In the first post in this series on continuous improvement, we discussed planning to improve, including how to set up your Kanban board to collect meaningful continuous improvement metrics. Continuing our use of the PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Adjust) framework, this post will cover the next two steps in the cycle of continuous improvement: Do and Check! DO: IDENTIFY...
The role of leadership in a Lean-Agile transformation certainly isn’t easy. While most enterprise leaders are likely familiar with the basic concepts of Lean and Agile, practicing them is another thing entirely. Leaders are often tasked with learning Lean-Agile practices while actively demonstrating them for everyone in the organization. The pressure is on for leadership...
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...
It’s been just over a week since this year’s DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in Las Vegas came to a close. And while we’re happy to be away from the artificial air that’s continuously pumped out at The Cosmopolitan, we will miss the breath of fresh air that many attendees and speakers brought to the DevOps...
