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How and When You Communicate Matters
How and When You Communicate MattersMost organizations understand that communication can make or break a project. Nonetheless, few organizations actually effectively communicate with staff and stakeholders about key initiatives. In particular, many organizations wait...
The Most Important Aspect of Change Management
The Most Important Aspect of Change ManagementIt can take a lot of time and effort to complete all of the work required by many formal change management methodologies. If an organization has the resources to complete all of this work, it is often very beneficial to do...
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Rules Should Not apply
Some organizational rules are critically important to keeping people safe from harm. Organizational leaders should ensure these rules are always followed. Other organizational rules exist to help staff know what to expect and to keep operations running smoothly. Making project teams working on critical change initiatives follow these rules can often do more harm than good.
The Importance of Traceability
Many software development projects waste time and resources creating system functionality end-users do not want or need while failing to deliver things end-users have specifically requested. Often poor traceability practices are to blame for these failures.
How and When You Communicate Matters
Most organizations understand that communication can make or break a project. Nonetheless, few organizations actually effectively communicate with staff and stakeholders about key initiatives. In particular, many organizations wait too long to communicate with staff and stakeholders and use horribly ineffective channels when they finally do communicate.
It is So Shiny! I Need to Have It!
It seems like every few years some new, must have process or piece of technology sweeps through industries. When this happens, it can very difficult for leaders of organizations to resist the urge to jump on the bandwagon and adopt the newest thing, even if doing so might be in their organization’s best interest.
The Most Important Aspect of Change Management
It can take a lot of time and effort to complete all of the work required by many formal change management methodologies. If an organization has the resources to complete all of this work, it is often very beneficial to do so. However, if an organization does not have the resources to do this much work, significant gains can still be made by focusing solely on the most important aspect of change management.
The Misapplication of Agile and the Myth that Waterfall is Dead
The popularity of Agile project management has led some organizations to use it exclusively and declare other project management methodologies like Waterfall dead. This often leads to Agile being used in situations in which a different project management methodology would work much better, and this in turn results in poor project outcomes and disappointed end users.
Management Theory
Rules Should Not apply
Some organizational rules are critically important to keeping people safe from harm. Organizational leaders should ensure these rules are always followed. Other organizational rules exist to help staff know what to expect and to keep operations running smoothly. Making project teams working on critical change initiatives follow these rules can often do more harm than good.
How and When You Communicate Matters
Most organizations understand that communication can make or break a project. Nonetheless, few organizations actually effectively communicate with staff and stakeholders about key initiatives. In particular, many organizations wait too long to communicate with staff and stakeholders and use horribly ineffective channels when they finally do communicate.
It is So Shiny! I Need to Have It!
It seems like every few years some new, must have process or piece of technology sweeps through industries. When this happens, it can very difficult for leaders of organizations to resist the urge to jump on the bandwagon and adopt the newest thing, even if doing so might be in their organization’s best interest.
The Most Important Aspect of Change Management
It can take a lot of time and effort to complete all of the work required by many formal change management methodologies. If an organization has the resources to complete all of this work, it is often very beneficial to do so. However, if an organization does not have the resources to do this much work, significant gains can still be made by focusing solely on the most important aspect of change management.
System Development
The Importance of Traceability
Many software development projects waste time and resources creating system functionality end-users do not want or need while failing to deliver things end-users have specifically requested. Often poor traceability practices are to blame for these failures.
It is So Shiny! I Need to Have It!
It seems like every few years some new, must have process or piece of technology sweeps through industries. When this happens, it can very difficult for leaders of organizations to resist the urge to jump on the bandwagon and adopt the newest thing, even if doing so might be in their organization’s best interest.
The Misapplication of Agile and the Myth that Waterfall is Dead
The popularity of Agile project management has led some organizations to use it exclusively and declare other project management methodologies like Waterfall dead. This often leads to Agile being used in situations in which a different project management methodology would work much better, and this in turn results in poor project outcomes and disappointed end users.
The Need for Enterprise Systems Engineering
Many modern enterprise IT systems fall far short of the ideal of operating as fully integrated wholes. In many instances, this is the result of too much focus on sub-system optimization and not enough focus on overall system performance. This situation can often be brought back into alignment through an increased focus on enterprise systems engineering.
The Philosophical Underpinnings of Agile
The popularity of Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Kanban has led many people to view Agile as a software development methodology. However, Agile started as a philosophy and organizations need to understand and adopt its philosophical underpinnings in order to achieve the full benefits of its use.
Change Management
How and When You Communicate Matters
Most organizations understand that communication can make or break a project. Nonetheless, few organizations actually effectively communicate with staff and stakeholders about key initiatives. In particular, many organizations wait too long to communicate with staff and stakeholders and use horribly ineffective channels when they finally do communicate.
Project Management
The Importance of Traceability
Many software development projects waste time and resources creating system functionality end-users do not want or need while failing to deliver things end-users have specifically requested. Often poor traceability practices are to blame for these failures.
The Misapplication of Agile and the Myth that Waterfall is Dead
The popularity of Agile project management has led some organizations to use it exclusively and declare other project management methodologies like Waterfall dead. This often leads to Agile being used in situations in which a different project management methodology would work much better, and this in turn results in poor project outcomes and disappointed end users.
The Philosophical Underpinnings of Agile
The popularity of Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Kanban has led many people to view Agile as a software development methodology. However, Agile started as a philosophy and organizations need to understand and adopt its philosophical underpinnings in order to achieve the full benefits of its use.