How to avoid siloed villages of practice
Communities of Practice are great, right? Whether you call them Guilds, Centres of Excellence, or Special Interest Groups — it […]
personal development
agile
Scrum in easy steps
Following the 2015 success of ‘Agile Project Management in easy steps‘, I was asked to write a book on Scrum.
personal development
Understanding Capability, Competence, and Capacity
Ever been confused over what people are talking about when they use the terms capabilities, competencies, and capacity? In everyday business communications these terms are
business analysis
The Lean Business Analysis Manifesto explained
In an age of digital disruption, when new start-ups are challenging incumbent market leaders from unexpected angles, when consumers and
agile
Four steps to agile risk management
While our delivery teams focus on designing, building, and testing product increments, we can pretty much guarantee that unforeseen events
agile
Barriers to agile transformation
I have been quiet for a while, and this is largely because through the last nine months I have been completing my
new product development, personal development
How to use structured play for business to unblock creativity
If you have wicked problems to solve and you want another way to generate ideas or solve problems — brainstorming gets
agile, governance, project management
Agile Project Management in easy steps
In October 2014 I shared how I would start work on the second edition of Agile Project Management in easy steps. The last
agile
Take two goals into a sprint? Creating a focus on improvement as well as delivery
We’ve all heard the reports that tell us how multi-tasking is not effective, how context-switching causes us unrecoverable down-time. We know