Your path to business agility
Halloween is just around the corner, which means that kids are eagerly looking forward to an evening of costumes and candy — and grown-ups are in store for a flurry of Halloween-themed movies that range from terrifying to heartwarming. However, this year after the final trick-or-treater has made the rounds and you’re ready to plunk...
Gene Kim’s opening remarks to a DevOps Enterprise Summit are always a welcome tonic for the IT community. His honest and earnest insights serve as an annual reminder to “keep up the good fight” in the perpetual challenge to help traditional organizations to survive and thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption. As ever, it’s...
Scientific and technological revolutions have been catalyzed by breakthroughs in measurement. From Galileo’s telescope to tunneling electron microscopes, innovations in how we measure the world have been at the core of paradigm shifts. Measurements of the exchange of value and risk have produced the financial system that defines the world economy. With the underpinnings of...
What keeps so many agile team members awake at night, clutching the sheets in terror? It’s these five spooky monsters: The Agileless Horseman The Agileless Horseman, who is a distant cousin (twice removed) of the Headless Horseman, is a C-level executive — and there can be a bunch of them, as they...
The critical chain theory for project management was developed by Eliyahu Goldratt and presented in a rather novel manner, through the form of a literal novel, Critical Chain. The focus of critical chain is to improve on what are seen as some of the core flaws of standard project management task estimation. The biggest of...
Third-level education is big business in the UK, with the universities themselves generating over $46 billion per year and foreign students coming to Britain to study being worth over $20 billion dollars to the UK economy annually. So, it’s understandable that the seemingly never-ending saga over Brexit is causing pupils, faculty members and university boards...
“One big new “A-ha!” is the emergence of new roles in enterprises transitioning from project to product. Roles with skills that optimize product value streams, such as the Value Stream Architect.“ With DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 returning next week (The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, October 28-30), Tasktop (Booth 403) plans to make our biggest splash yet. Last year,...
This blog is part of a series on Lean Portfolio Management (LPM). If you haven’t already, we recommend reading parts one through three first, which you can find here: Part 1: What is Lean Portfolio Management? Part 2: Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding Part 3: Lean Portfolio Management Operations: An Agile Approach...
Business built on agile foundations is fuelled by change from the bottom up, with teams on the frontline spotting opportunities as they arise and getting the executive buy-in to take advantage of them. This is especially true for modern organizations, where technology can change in a flash, and it’s up to those with their fingers...
Dr. Emmett Brown: Marty! I need you to go back with me! Marty McFly: Where? Dr. Emmett Brown: Back to the Future! Great Scott! In the epic 1985 film ‘Back to the Future’, Doc Brown avoids being gunned down by angry terrorists because someone from the future had a different plan in store. By defining the...
