Launching Sophorum for agile and lean leadership
Announcing the launch of Sophorum, a business agility service for business analysis, coaching, team leading, new product development, business design, education, etc.
agile
new product development
agile, governance
Keeping pace – a layered approach to achieving agility
At last it has a name. Gartner’s pace-layered application strategy framework provides a model that allows waterfall and agile practices to live side-by-side.
agile, governance
Fifty shades of governance
This talk, which followed my article ‘Bringing sexy back to governance‘, was presented at the 2012 BA Development Day conference, and covers what we mean by governance,
new product development
Turn my world outside in – customer experience design
Customer Experience Design (CXD) offers a far funkier way for us to approach our business process analysis projects, and leads to far better product design.
governance
Bringing sexy back to governance
Have you had enough of bloated, slow-moving, toothless governance processes that cost more than the value they add and impede flow of good projects without intervening on bad projects? In this article, I talk about how it should be different and float the ideas that should lead to a leaner governance more fit for the 21st century.
project management
How to communicate status with colour (RAG report)
When we need to communicate the status of something easily or urgently, especially when there is risk involved, then a simple colour-coded system based on traffic lights is often used … known as traffic-light or RAG rating.
new product development
Five insights into product innovation from the Air New Zealand Skycouch
In a groundbreaking development, Air New Zealand are building on their success as Airline of the Year 2009 by lifting their long-haul economy-class experience above the chase for cheapest price. Learn how they took the best in user experience and usability testing, combined with good agile working practices, to drive the New Zealand spirit of innovation to another world first — lie-flat beds in economy.
new product development
Taking product development to the sixth dimension
A straight forward six-stage approach to discovering and delivering great products.