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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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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