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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Making Better Project Decisions With Confidence

No one wants to make a bad decision. We want to think we’re making the right choice, taking the appropriate action and heading in the right direction.   Sometimes, we don’t make decisions at all because we lack the confidence to act. Often we’re surprised when the outcome is not what we expected…
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Change management for projects

When you think about it, all projects are change management projects. Projects are all about creating something new and in the process changing how something is done. This is of course most often accompanied by people being trained or hired (or fired) or customers doing something different.   So if…
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Lean-Agile Procurement: Can complex sourcing really be agile?

As customer demand becomes one of the burning platforms for change, the need to be agile is reaching all areas of business. But, if we really want to deliver value early and often, we need to take a systems approach and address any pain points in the organisation that impact our ability to deliver…
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Agile for project management explained

Let’s start by acknowledging that the foundations of agile as a management model were established from an amalgam of techniques dating as far back as the 1960s. They were singularly focused on one specific goal: developing software. Take a quick read of the 20+ year old Agile Manifesto and you’ll…
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The Adaptive Project Manager Skills Series: Making change part of your DNA

Evolutionary biology is one of the models adaptive leadership has at its core. This is important because evolution, the process by which successive change is passed from parent to offspring in the hopes the offspring will thrive, also applies to organisations and the way they operate. Adaptive…
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Organisations and self-sufficient natural systems

"One cannot help being struck by the way in which the cells in an organism not only cooperate but cooperate in a specific direction towards the fulfilment and maintenance of the type of the particular organism which they constitute. ” — Jan Smuts     One of the most remarkable aspects of natural…
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Shane Hastie named the new Global Delivery Lead at SoftEd

2022 is already off to a strong start for the team at SoftEd as they welcome back agile, leadership and culture expert Shane Hastie. He returns to SoftEd as the new Global Delivery Lead responsible for taking the SoftEd vision to the world.   On re-joining the team, Shane had this to say,  "SoftEd…
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Communication tips and techniques for successful project teams

Speed and effectiveness. That’s the ideal communication goal for any successful initiative. It’s not hard to achieve – if the team is disciplined and united. If the team is dysfunctional and fragmented, no sophisticated collaboration app or amount of communication finesse will help.   That’s the…
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