A very personal perspective As ever with my posts this is a very personal viewpoint and perspective about one of the most enjoyable and invigorating periods of my life. My time as 3iG Director at NGN. I decided to share this journey to help show that when you get down to it – great people…
Can your business survive & surprise?
It was a surprise to me, when discussing business strategy with a UK leading Grocer, that their biggest challenger wasn’t another major supermarket brand, but in fact Amazon.
Do you layer Vectors of Disruption into your products?
It’s easy to spot the companies that “get” disruption. They stand out because they layer disruptive elements into their offerings. In all sorts of areas.
#dddx Cyrille Martraire – When DDD meets Documentation
So Eric’s talk had got me thinking about Documenting our system using Context Maps. With the new acquisition by IIX I’m working with their technical writer at the moment to pass on the domain knowledge the team and I have built up over the last two years.
Six Sad Security Management Flaws You Can Fix Today
Are you one of the lucky few NOT suffering from these six costly management problems?
People Powered Change
Latest measure of employee engagement found that only 16% of workers are engaged, or are emotionally connected to their job. 68% of the workforce are totally disengaged and 16% are actively disengaged. The root cause of this is due to management and organisations not creating an environment which is conducive to creating a good employee experience.
Engagement – There Is No Such Thing As Bad Press
One of the things we talk about in Custerian is to avoid starting a story, process or journey – anything in fact – part way though. That’s why we are keen to understand the context of any project. In short why we have been engaged.
Making money out of friction
The reason why people don’t do many of the things they set out to do is what is nowadays called “friction”. In the good old days it would more likely have been called “laziness”. Friction is the gap between intention and action caused by it being difficult to do, or difficult to remember to do.
Epic Sizing Ruler – extending the planning horizon
I joined an already established team, that had been working on a large scale Enterprise Data Warehouse implementation for over a year. I logged into Mingle and started to get up to speed with available planning data. My first step was to produce a burn-up chart to see how predictable the team were but also … Continue reading →
AgendaShift in action – IT Ops
Following the recent introduction of Kanban to the Internet Hosting Group (basically what we would refer to as an IT ops function in the Kanban community) of a client, I wanted to test out a new tool from Mike Burrows called AgendaShift.
