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From Flavour of the Month to Spécialité de la Maison
You’ve discovered the ultimate solution, the answer to all your business problems, the business method you’ve waited your entire professional life to find. How will you get your colleagues to take it up? How will you make sure that it will be going strong next year? How will you take it from ‘Flavour of the Month’ to ‘Spécialité de la Maison? …
Means, Motive and Opportunity
Means, motive and opportunity, it works for murderers so why not for managers?• Motive, the force (external or internal) that gives you the need to take action• Means, the relevant physical and intangible resources you have that enable you to take action• Opportunity, the suitable time and place where you can take action…
Benefits in bite-sized bits… Agile delivers time-bound pieces of functionality. It has the flexibility to adapt to circumstances and lessons learned from previous time boxes.Benefits Management can work well in an Agile setting but it may have to run to keep up…
Sprints begin with Product Owners describing their requirements and prioritising what gets done next. MoSCoW (must, should, could, won’t do) selection of what they want and the order they want it in sets the Product Backlog for the developers to concentrate on in the next round of work.
Here’s a quick cheat sheet that aims to capture the essence of the practices and principles that are transforming several organisations I’m currently working with. All feedback greatly appreciated. LPPM Cheat Sheet Filed under: Organisational Anti-Patterns, Portfolio Management, Rightshifting, Systems Thinking, Tools
Any time, any place anywhere – it’s the right one. Who knew that the now decades-old yet iconic Martini ad campaign was forming the basis of what is now tagged as the Omni-channel experience. The concept is exercising many brains right now. We know that in an ideal world we need to give an easy, […]
Last night, I upgraded a site to rails 4. The site is a pretty basic rails app, so the upgrade path wasn’t too painful, pretty much all I had to change was to do with the new mass assignment security – whitelisting of form params and the controller rat…
Loosely based on the Marshall Model here’s an org level view I often see within larger organisations. Phrases I’ve heard associated with this view are “we have pockets of Agile but we’re mainly Waterfall” or “We’re piloting Agile but most of the org is Waterfall”. I used this slide in a recent presentation on organisation … »
I’ve pulled together a cheat sheet aimed at helping individuals work with Kanban. It only really covers the what and the how – for the why you’ll need to do further reading. This is the first edition of the cheat sheet so please send me any feedback to incorporate into later editions. Click the graphic … »
Over 23 million variations on a theme. At least, that’s how many links you’ve access to if you put “Definition of customer experience” into Google. There are only 3 million more links to “Definition of humanity”. So it’s not surprising that to engage the corporate leadership team or those of a sceptical, short-term disposition in […]