Ways of Working

Over the past couple of years, product managers have been pushed towards a more strategic role. Now more than ever,…

Question: How many internet browser windows/tabs do you have open right now? (Likely) Answer: 4? 5? 6? More than you…

People tend to be resistant to big changes, so transforming your organization’s learning culture is going to require a strategic approach.

The ability to articulate and share goals of projects of an agile operating model implementation makes it easier to determine your organization’s driving motivations and keeps your teams focused on priorities. Stating your goals at the start of the transformation also helps you to better evaluate success along the way.

Using Agile principles to prioritize business projects helps to make your product or service development process both more effective and more efficient, saving your organization time, and protecting or even generating revenue. We outline ways to overcome obstacles you might encounter when trying to prioritize and explain what project leaders should do to help.

As agile operating models increase in popularity, there’s a tendency to focus on Scrum for managing software development. However, that focus is too narrow. There are three key ways an agile operating model can improve your business.

Implementing an agile operating model offers organizations a lifeline by improving their prioritization and accelerating their decision-making process. The end…

We’d like to introduce an extract from our VFQ session book – Adapting Agile. It looks at how to create…

raw process, but one that often provides a way to break through and improve tremendously.

Did you know that if you hold a small coin close enough to your eye you can block out the…

In an article I published sometime ago titled The Optimum Sourcing Model, I discussed the common variations that companies use…

Maintaining a sense of urgency can be discussed in a number of different contexts. I’d like to discuss it in…

We increasingly believe that the single most important critical success factor for an effective team is colocation. The primary reason…

When I talk about teams in this post I mean any group of people such as a team, a project,…

The final result of a software development department is working code, code that we hope will be valuable (effective). A…