Identification of the root cause issue is a critical step to ensuring successful organizational change and performance improvement.
You Won’t Survive as a Commodity. Differentiate on Value!
Differentiation is what you provide your customers, either a product or a service, that they cannot get elsewhere or do for themselves.
Agile Estimation – Feature and Story Sizing Scales
It is important for scrum masters, product owners, and teams not to outsmart themselves when developing their relative sizing scales. Effective Agile teams must develop a simple, repeatable scale for feature-level sizing and story point estimating.
Developing ‘Soft’ Skills as a Leadership Strength
Soft skills are critical to effective leadership and success as project managers.
How Business Rules Complement Business Process Modeling
Each operational process in your organization has rules as well. There are policies, guidelines, and restrictions that govern behavior in every operational process.
Becoming the Hero’s Coach
Unfortunately, the well-honed skills that define a great individual contributor don’t always translate to the skills needed to lead people. Even when good people skills are developed success can be elusive unless newly minted managers shift their mindset from being the “hero” as an individual contributor to the “hero’s coach” in managing others.
How Flexible is Your Business Strategy?
The game of business comes down to make-or-break decisions, which should be reviewed as a regular management team agenda item – not as a once yearly event.
You Can Stop Project Management Chaos Pt. 3
Once A project portfolio has been defined and approved, it needs to be optimized and re-balanced for performance and business value within resource capacity constraints.
You Can Stop Project Management Chaos Pt. 2
The goal of project portfolio management is to work on the right projects at the right time for the right costs balanced to resource capacity to achieve the strategic and business objectives of the organization.
You Can Stop Project Management Chaos Pt. 1
Project Portfolio Management is a set of business processes that allows organizations to select the right projects at the right time to achieve strategic business goals.