My forecast for 2015 is that Agile, or rather the term “Agile” as we all know it, starts to fade away. The reason isn’t so much that it has not met up to its promises, but rather that it becomes redundant to add a moniker to a …
To kick off the new year, I’ll be speaking at the PMI-LA Alhambra evening meeting on the idea of using my M3 leadership framework manifesto…
Glassdoor.com has just released its report on the 50 best places to work in the US (and pretty much abroad since most companies these days are global) and not surprisingly, Google came out on top. It sound from the report that this is due to all…
I am honored to be conducting a four part training seminar for Roeder Consulting on the fundamentals of Agile project management. Not only will we…
There’s no doubt that Agile has been beneficial to the development of software and industries beyond, but one thing I have noticed is that people who get deep into it can have a tendency to oversimplify both the problem and the solution to which…
There’s no doubt that Lean and specifically the idea of Kaizen and its emphasis on continuous improvements have taken off within the manufacturing industry and…
The second doctrine of Agile is having “working software over comprehensive documentation” which drives much of the obsession with being “done” in the Agile community. In other words, the whole reason for doing Agile is s…
I’ll be giving a webinar on “The Anti-FrAgile Foundations of Project Management” for PMI’s Agile Community of Practice on November 12, 2014 from 10 AM…
Similar to the 1992 US presidential race where Bill Clinton successfully defeated George H.W. Bush by creating the catchy slogan (“It’s the economy, stupid!”) to focus back on the economy, one could hold a similar sentiment with Scru…
In this Wall Street Journal article, it points out the latest initiative of the retail behemoth Walmart in their attempt at being more “Agile”. Agile that is in the traditional sense of applying this to their giant IT division for software development that is spread over 130 &ldquo…
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