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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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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