You already have a career portfolio – how to leverage it to maximise your potential

In today's dynamic and globalised job market, the concept of a "career portfolio" is more relevant than ever. This term has evolved to represent a collection of one's diverse skills, experiences, and roles. It's a powerful tool that allows professionals to showcase their adaptability, lifelong learning, and a multi-disciplinary approach to work.

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Mastering the Product Mindset: The Key to Unlocking Value Creation, Agility, and Sustained Competitive Advantage

By: David Mantica, VP and GM SoftEd US  Introduction  In today's dynamic and competitive market, adopting a product mindset is crucial for businesses to create and deliver value to their customers. This article will discuss the importance of understanding the product mindset, incorporating value…
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Our Brain Is Not Made for Knowledge Work

By David Mantica  Humans have not evolved for knowledge work and we must fight against our evolutionary setup to effectively function in a complex business world. Understanding this can help us manage stress and work environments, and ultimately execute tasks with value. Our brains have evolved for…
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What is Value?

By: David Mantica  The concept of value plays a crucial role in software project management and Agile methodologies. In this article, we'll explore the various dimensions of value, including customer value, business value, and technical value. We'll also discuss how to measure, prioritize, and…
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A day in the life of a coach

Sharon Robson is an agile coach based in Australia. She talks us through an average working day and why is an essential part of professional development.   "It is important, as a coach, that when I engage with people it is always with intent This takes planning, so I wake early to give myself time…
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Know your enemy: The role of DevOps security in protecting business reputation and data

By 2025, humanity’s collective data will amount to 175 zettabytes.    That’s: 175,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.     It includes everything from healthcare, personal finance data, business intellectual property, corporate finance, right through to your profile and pictures on dating apps.    At the same…
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Business data analytics: Using data to power better business decisions

Business data analytics combines business intelligence, data science, statistics, and business analysis techniques to reveal patterns or trends and predict business performance.      You've probably heard the saying that "data is the new oil. " While it's not new, it's truer now than ever. In a world…
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The Adaptive Project Manager Skills Series: Understanding Adaptive Problems

One, if not the, most powerful skill adaptive leaders have is diagnosis. In fact, in "The Practice of Adaptive Leadership," Ronald Heifetz et al. says: "The single most important skill and most undervalued capacity for exercising adaptive leadership is diagnosis. " Why?  Guiding resources to or…
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The Role Language Pruning Plays in Agile Transformations

“While being the product of a culture, a language is also a generator of culture. Hence, if the language is poor, the culture is poor. ” - Manfred Max-Neef     The ‘Agile Enterprise’ is rapidly emerging as the dominant post-bureaucratic operating model. Every major management consultancy is…
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Project expectations versus reality

Let’s be clear – it doesn’t matter what the facts are if the customer’s expectations are not met.   It doesn’t get any simpler, but statistics and anecdotal accounts show that an alarmingly large number of projects fail to meet customer expectations. Regardless of the industry segment, project…
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Planning for project professionals

A lot of voices, many from the agile community, have questioned the need for planning. Their rationale is simple: since change is inevitable in whatever it is you are doing, it is wasteful and counter-productive to plan.  This is especially true, they argue, for planning beyond the horizon of a…
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How to catalyse collective decision-making

“In any organisation of human beings, people will tend to glom onto interpretations of reality that do not call for them to take personal responsibility for the problem” — Ronald Heifetz     How do organisations make better decisions in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA…
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