The Platform Business Model and Moving from Products Sales to Services Offering
Over the past 1.5 decades we have witnessed the rapid growth of the recent paradigm in customer engagement through allowing them to pay for what they ...
List of General Articles
What is VUCA Prime?
VUCA is a concept that originated with students at the U.S. Army War College to describe the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous nature o ...
3 Leadership and Management Strategies for the Small Business Owner
Small business owners (SBOs) have unique challenges when it comes to leadership & management. Here are some obstacles that SBOs face and some simp ...
Driving the Future of Business Leadership and Management
To remain relevant as leaders and managers, we need to challenge the holy grails, debunk myths and invent new practices better suited for the 21st&nbs ...
Sustainable Project Management
Society and Environment challengesIn the developed world, we regularly hear on the news about the rising cost of petrol and electricity. We also hear ...
4 Golden Rules for Business Survival
According to the US Small business administration, four out of five businesses started in 2016 survived their first year of activity, half of them sur ...
Business hates project management
Picture the scene. You're at the bar and you overhear a conversation. The conversation is happening between Business and Project Management... It do ...
Agile Transformation: Culture, Strategy, and Tactics
All the large organizations in Canada and the US are either considering or in the midst of an "Agile Transformation" Is this a true transformation, an ...
Building Your Own Methodology | Focus on Benefits
In my first article, (August 2019 edition), I mentioned that one of the major challenges that faces projects' managers nowadays is selecting the prope ...
Innovation Ecosystems and Business Composability in a Post-Pandemic, War-Hit Decade
Just as we thought the inflationary recovery of a post-pandemic world is going to be the headline for the rest of this decade, a war imposed on Europe ...
Customer Value Delivery through Anything-As-A-Service (XaaS)
Over the past 15 years, as the internet connectivity – especially mobile – has become stronger and the phones and portable devices become ...
The Survival Art of Counter-Digital-Disruption
In the 3rd decade of the 21st century we are already at the center of a hyper-disrupted global market where rolling waves of new digitally-d ...
The Value Myth: Customer Centricity vs. Business Outcome
The commercial software product development became popular at global level with the introduction of PCs (i.e., Personal Computers) in the 1980s and re ...
Assurance as a critical friend – “I’m the hand, not the head”
A critical friend is typically someone who tells it how it is and judges the merits and faults of something. While friends, on the other han ...
Meditation for better Project Management?
I know what they say about meditation - that it enhances your cognitive skills and maturity. I know it sounds real, alluring and downright boring. So ...
Key role of KPI’s in building credibility for Project Managers
Pandemic Year of 2020 and recouping Year 2021 has certainly created a positive market of Project Managers in almost all the industries. The importance ...
Is management by exception a pipe dream?
Management by exception is a technique that is often touted to reduce the time burden on senior management within an organisation who are often member ...
The co-creation of value
Value is subjective, with different people applying different criteria to assess whether they are realising value from a product or service. It is thi ...
The Key Steps in Transformation of Enterprise Operating Models
An enterprise’s operating model is the set of principles, guidelines, guardrails, processes, technologies, and mindsets that the organization pu ...
Optimizing Value Delivery Through DevOps Transformation
In the current “Heavily Digitally Disrupted” market, where the tight race for delivering more business value in less time with ever-improv ...
Polls and more
1) Each department has its own challenges, only an expert functional leader will be able to analyze these challenges and develop the learning on how t ...
Five Factors ensuring project success
The priority of the success factors for projects - in general – differs, based on the industry, type, and size of the project. For instance, the ...
Prioritisation is key skill
I teach prioritisation methods to decision makers, to create a portfolio of change initiatives that the organisation has the capacity to deliver. Many ...
Beyond the I-shaped employee
In an era of adaptation and better ways of working in the context of continuous performance improvements, people in becoming more flexible have inevit ...
Smart KPIs for The Digital Economy
The “do-or-die” mandate for Digital Transformation, has become the most important strategic decision for all enterprises, in every market ...
Is it you, or is it me?
A lot of projects fail despite all the effort put in them. This article will target transformation projects, having one of the highest failure rates, ...
Benefits realisation – Everyone is responsible
Managing Benefits by Steve Jenner highlights that a common misconception about benefits identification, measurement, management and realisation is the ...
Wisdom of Failure on projects destined to fail
When you look for the best resource to recruit for projects, you should always have substantial weightage for their 'wisdom of failure.' It is one of ...
A hero’s journey to project management
The #Hero's Journey is a classic story structure that's shared by stories worldwide. Coined by academic Joseph Campbell in 1949, it refers to a wide-r ...
Project Management Swiss Cheese Model
In the Swiss cheese model, an organisation's defences when applied to project management are modelled as a series of protective layers, represent ...
Re-setting the agenda for project management in 2021
I am currently working with a very talented project manager and seeing her tackle all of her daily challenges reminds me what an amazingly broad skill ...
5 Areas a Successful Project Manager Should Focus on in 2021
The world has changed already. Project Management has to change as well. We, project managers and leaders, need to adapt to new realities of remote w ...
M.A.S.S.I.V.E. Projects for sustainable development
The current period the world is living in relation to economic, social, environmental aspects, put peoples in front of important decisi ...
The Global Alliance PMOhackathon: Debunking Remote Working Myths
Introduction: The Impact of COVID-19 on business as usual or rather post-COVID-19 Many organizations across the globe began with digital transformati ...
IS LEADERSHIP THE DIFFERENTIATING FACTOR IN TIMES OF CRISIS?
Miracle on the Hudson Imagine yourself on the flight of US Airways 1549, Airbus A320 that took off from New York City's LaGuardia Airpor ...
The Missing D N A Chromosome in Project Management
In response to the project management magazine Feb2020, discussing the series of project manager DNA. This article sheds the light on the emotion ...
The Evolution and Development of Project Management in the Education Industry of Canada
Abstract This assignment includes the entire information regarding Project Management. The information of its evolution, The Canadian Education Syste ...
Practical planning tips
Introduction I have just created my own personal Advent Calendar, realising there are 25 days to the last working day before the Christ ...
Scrum Master speed date: quick knowledge sharing
As part of a range of experiments to enable growth within the Scrum Master population, we organized a 15-minute time box of knowledge sharing called t ...
The ‘house’ of Scrum? … A house, indeed!
Albeit having no graphical skills, I understand the power of visualization. In 2011 I intuitively used a house as a representation and metaphor for ...
Project problems - prevention and anticipation
Project managers don’t have a crystal ball, but they do have experience……. As with any body of work, project managers need to l ...
Can we cure the Daily with a Game? The Daily Stand-up Game
Some say YES, some say NO, I say give it a try and we’ll find out! The Daily (Stand-Up/Scrum) meeting is for us the most beautiful meeting in ...
Xeonian - The Project Manager Dictionary's fluency
There is a point of time when a person realizes that knowledge and experience never end, they are dramatic and they are expandable in all means and ...
Why do RPA projects fail?
Robotic Process Automation is the latest ‘Big Thing’ in IT, with many companies staking their futures on a highly automated operating mo ...
Project Management Style Tailoring
It is commonly known that there's no right or wrong in picking what methodology you need to follow in managing your project. In the world of IT, a su ...
One P3 lifecycle to rule them all?
Given that the “one size fits all” model is no longer the best approach particularly in regards to portfolio, programme and project manage ...
Common Misconceptions about Agile
Summary: Most software companies claim to have implemented agile methodologies. However, there are some common pitfalls and myths about agile. Many So ...
AI driven project management – Data Strategy
Over the next few weeks we’ll be hosting a number functions which take a look at the state of the art of time and cost performance of major proj ...
Is Your Organization Ready for Agile Change?
A few years ago I interviewed a colleague who tried a perspective map in her organization. The idea of change readiness assessment ...
How to adopt Agile successfully?
When adopting agile across an organisation its important to recognise that agile has two sides. Most people would know these ...
Agile Lessons Learned
Empathy with those adopting change Fantastic day at @AdeccoGroup last week, celebrating their awards for excellence in transformation. Lots of presen ...
Lessons (Un)Learned: How Project Managers can learn from their mistakes - A closer look into the Aircraft industry example
Mistakes are part of our daily lives. They are unavoidable, thanks to our human nature. But, we can learn a lot from them. Lets take a look on an indu ...
Adopting Agile approaches
This is another entry in a series of posts that covers different aspects relating to Scrum, being a Scrum Master, and everything Agile. These are the ...
Being agile without a capital ‘A’!
My construction project management students will generally tell me that Agile has no place in construction. Indeed, many feel that the PMI has a ...
Difference between Old and Modern Project Management
In this article we discussed difference between Old and Modern Project Management, Project Management principle Consist of Project Initiations, Planni ...
Future management of large-scale projects
GUEST OBSERVATIONProject managers are expected to effectively manage large and complex projects or programmes, but it is widely recognised that these ...
Old skool project management
Project success through the delivery of the agreed spending objectives was once ubiquitously judged on three criteria - time, budget and quality or sc ...
Agile Frameworks - num:5 Scrum-ban
Scrum-banScrum-ban is an Agile development methodology that is a hybrid of Scrum and Kanban frameworks. Scrum-ban emerged using Kanban as a lens throu ...
So your Sprint Reviews have turned into Garbage? ... here is how to step out of the dumpster!
Sprint Reviews are held at the end of the Sprints for a few very specific and very important reasons, which if missed or perverted, would turn the ent ...
The Importance of Project Management Certifications (Saurabh)
Certification and It’s Importance Certification is a formal procedure by which an accredited or authorized person or agency assesses, verifies ...
The Importance of Project Management Certifications (Arman)
Certifications in Agile … Why is it worth the effort? Back in 2006, when – out of pure curiosity - I got my first ever certificate in Ag ...
My Journey and Lessons Learned: Cleared my PMP Certification in First Attempt !
I began my PMP journey in December 2018 as a MS in Project Management student at Northeastern University - Boston, with nearly six years of experience ...
WHAT ARE WE MANAGING
There are so many managements in the corporate world that I can no longer quote them.They are all very important in their specific contexts. But after ...
Your Best Insurance for Multimillion Dollar Tech Projects (Independent Project Reviews)
Germany’s biggest discount grocer, Lidl was primed to make a strategic and profitable digital leap. Yet, after 7 years and €500 million in ...
Don't buy umbrellas in July for rain in November
The Management of Risk is a huge topic. Getting the balance right between being too risk averse or just "winging it" is a challenge. Risk can often be ...
Project Management challenges in IT
While project management or project manager term sounds very crisp and light from outside considering no technical work involved in it, but it’s ...
Project Management And The Art of Story
The principle vehicle of leadership is the story: the leader affects individual behavior, thought, and feelings through stories that he and she tells. ...
The Yin Yang of Projects: Using WBS in hybrid project management.
In this chapter of the hybrid project management series, I will talk about the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Technique from the PMBoK and how it can ...
Project Management is a Mindset
It is more and more common to hear about “mindset”, especially after the Agile thunderstorm, that took over the Project Management world i ...
Coaching advice for Scrum Masters (Part 5): Trust is the Glue holding your practice together!
A Coaching Scrum Master uses the strongest pulling energy in the world to keep the team and the entire coaching work together: Trust, But where does i ...
5 Common Pitfalls in Project Management
Designing and delivering a project can be like building a house of cards. If you are not meticulous and thorough it can all come tumbling down. This i ...
Program management: what is it about?
Purpose of this paperBeing in IT since 2000, I have observed in every mission different processes, various meanings of "success" and various sensibili ...
Storytelling or why you should think of your project like a Disney movie.
5 easy tips how you can use storytelling techniques to increase the impact of your projects.‘The way the films look will never entertain an audi ...
Agile Frameworks - number:4 Kanban
KanbanDeveloped by David J. Anderson (Lean Kanban, Inc. CEO in collaboration with the global community enthusiasts, coaches and trainers).The Kanban M ...
Agile VS. Waterfall Project Management for Mobile App Development
What I have learnt from more than 10 successful projects at RealmonkeyI am taking care of projects at Realmonkey from last 3 years and successfully de ...
Scrum Is Driving Us Crazy!
Quite a few teams in organizations implementing Scrum depict their frustration in statements like “Scrum is driving us crazy!”, “It& ...
Scrum Mastery - Beyond the Framework
The Scrum Master role is often underestimated at first. In Scrum Master training the role is often downplayed by attendees to that of Team Assistant o ...
Project Management - What is the Next Major Milestone?
Project Management is no dusty relic of the past. Rather, Project Management continues to grow, evolve and influence individuals.Looking at the modern ...
How to Unlock Your Inner Scrum Master.(Raluca)
When I think about the unlocking your inner SM my thoughts fly to the Hairy Shoe and the Conscious Competence model, as evolutiona ...
How to Unlock Your Inner Scrum Master.(Jonathan)
Find the COURAGE to strive for a better team, product, organization, world. What is stopping you from telling a better story? I was talking ...
The reverse triple constraint of projects in trouble
Assuming you suspect or know that one of your projects is in trouble the first step is always an extensive project review. After such a review you hop ...
Every Breath is Counted
Mind Body Emotions….connecting link is Breathing. As breathing is autonomous process we take it for granted and do not pay any attention to it. ...
Importance of Coaching in the Project Management world as a Professional
“A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life.” ― John WoodenI often hear a lot of individuals boasting, I have been ...
The DNA of a project manager
The DNA of a project managerThe project management profession (where industry best practices, behaviours and values are taught, applied and pragmatica ...
The RACI Model – not just another authority matrix
Most people would agree that for a programme or project to be successful there must be an explicit direction and management team structure consisting ...
Communication in Project Management
Communication works like glue, it keeps relationships and team members tied together. This skill plays an enormous role in successful project manageme ...
Lessons learned in Project Management
Despite appearances, an effective project management is not the simplest task. Especially when it comes to more complex ones - for example those relat ...
Project Portfolio Management: Theory vs. Practice
If you are responsible for managing portfolios of technology programs and projects, your success in maximizing business outcomes with finite resources ...
Learning from experience
When starting a project, and during its lifecycle, industry best practice project management methodologies and common sense advocate the need learn fr ...
Beyond Scrum Masters as facilitators
The following text is an excerpt from my latest book "Level Up Agile with Toyota Kata" available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/LEVEL-AGILE-TOYOTA- ...
Equality - the roles in Scrum
The Scrum Team consists of three roles. The only three roles needed in Scrum. But all needed! And all equally important to be successful.This first se ...
Lesson Learned – The Forgotten treasure
Lessons learned or lessons learnt are experiences from a previous project that should be actively considered in future projects. Lesson ...
Information or data? How to effectively benefit from Lessons learned?
Information or data? How to effectively benefit from Lessons learned? Lessons learned as defined by different international organizations: PMI PMBOK g ...
The Soft Side of Project Management
My professional journey has been quite an interesting and adventurous one. I have been involved in MEP (Mechanical , Electrical , Plumbing) contr ...
Scrum Master or Agile Coach?
I am not a dogmatic Scrum Master. That means I don't blindly follow and enact the Scrum Guide. I understand why the Scrum framework installed its bril ...
What We Can Learn from the Highly Coachable
I’m often asked what makes someone “coachable?” Are there some people who seem to do more & go further with coaching than others ...
Factors To Help Prioritize Your Scrum Product Backlog
Efficiency: something we all strive for, but often have a hard time accomplishing. However, when it comes to software development, efficiency is what ...
Why Only Knowing Scrum is Not Enough to be a Scrum Master
The first thing that happens to a newly minted Scrum Master, regardless of their certification (SSM, CSM, PSM1), on their first day of work is the sta ...
My Scrum Master cliff-notes: W.A.I.T
This is another entry in a series of posts that covers different aspects relating to Scrum, being a Scrum Master, and everything Agile. These are the ...
A Project Manager and a Scrum Master walk into a bar
A Project Manager and a Scrum Master walk into a bar. The Scrum Master is doing most of the talking.It’s after work on Friday and Pam, the ...
Making the argument for portfolio management
I have been talking a lot recently about enterprise change management, the need to manage all the changes that an organisation is implementing, and no ...
The Tale of the Two Scrum Masters | Agile Coach Tales
Since early 2008, I have been fortunate to have worked as an Agile Coach, Transformation Consultant, Leadership Mentor, Organizational Guide and Team ...
Good Scrum Master - How do you learn to become a GREAT Scrum Master?
The title of this article is inspired from a great book which I consider the most important book after the Scrum Guide: 'Scrum Mastery' by G ...
Why Scrum Boards Work
The first time I remember seeing a scrum board was while watching HBO’s Silicon Valley: Jared introduces Scrum to the Pied Piper team after ...
Scope Creep and Gold Plating in software development projects and how to deal with them?
More and more innovative products are being implemented on the market. Particular attention should be paid to those from such segments as Adtech, Fint ...
Everything and the kitchen sink
In project management, scope creep (or kitchen sink syndrome) refers to changes, continuous or uncontrolled growth in a project's scope, at any point ...
Uncontrolled Scope
Scope is best managed and controlled while submitting Statement of Wok and System Requirement Specification phase. Then further down the line to be tr ...
The 7 Deadly Sins of Project Management
For many of my straight laced, PMBOK toting project managers out there forgive me as this article was written for the layman and I’ve adapted ...
Has Project Management Undersold Itself?
It has been a few months since my last article (compounded by the holidays) but I wanted to address a topic that I’ve been promoting for the las ...
The 6 hats of project management
Most people familiar with De Bono's Six Thinking Hats know it is a powerful technique for looking at decision making from different points of vie ...
Obeya Room in portfolio management
How do you find the concept of Obeya Room in modern portfolio management? Translated literally from Japanese, word Obeya means “a large room&rdq ...
True or False: The Scrum Master is a manager
The Scrum Master is a manager of Scrum process, but not of people.The topic and debate of "Is the Scrum Master a manager" surfaces regularly and a cau ...
Project Management - The Importance of Soft Skills
We are living in interesting times. Social and gender norms are changing, the rise of populism in politics and the emergence of Artificial Intelligenc ...
How to get a head start with Scrum
Scrum is easy to understand, yet difficult to master. The Scrum Guide says so and it's true. If you have worked with Scrum in your organization you pr ...
Current challenges in IT Project Management
Project Managers play a crucial role in success or failure of any project. It is essential for the project managers to be sharp enough through out the ...
Inspection without adaptation is pointless in Scrum. An act of futility.
People are naturally Agile. People will adapt as is needed. Our personal lives require us to demonstrate that ability more than our professional envir ...
Benefits of having a project management consultant in your team
Your team may have all the basic skills for managing projects, but it still makes sense to hire a specialised project management consultant. This exte ...
Scope of projects
Quite simply, use the following five steps to scope your project. If you follow them they will provide the information that you need to complete the P ...
How to stop Scope Creep, Part 1
The mortal enemy of all project managers, our kryptonite our ongoing antagonist; Scope Creep. While I can make several statements on how to reduce thi ...
How cloud computing is changing project management
Many organizations have started their cloud transition, but cloud computing is still new enough that project management practices have yet to catch up ...
Project Management Trends in 2019
Based on the 2018 experience of our customers and backed up by research, I am predicting six trends in 2019 for project portfolio management teams.#1 ...
The PM is dead, long live the BA/PM
Project Managers have about as good a reputation as Recruitment Consultants. This is because, to most people, the value they bring is perceived as min ...
7 Technology Project Management Trends and Predictions for 2019
As the old saying goes, “The only constant is change.” And nowhere does that sentiment seem to hold more truth than in the field of techno ...
Project Management, and the philosophy of under-performance.
I am going to commit a heresy. Project Management doesn’t work very well, particularly for complex projects.Here are some things that do wo ...
Project Management applied to Life
Since I started studying Project Management, I often catch myself taking mental notes that go far beyond what I intend to use on my daily job. There i ...
Risk Management: The game has changed
The risk landscape is changing fast. Every day we hear and read about future changes and new challenges in business. Changes in business bring new ris ...
Project Management: Art or Science?
December 20, 2018: Question Series #7It's the age old question in our field and it's extremely hard to answer it specifically. Is the Project Manageme ...
Agile and Scrum are Good.
AGILE and SCRUM "revisited"In one of my original posts, I made it clear that I was NOT a fan of this so-called AGILE process. Since then, however; out ...
Aspects of Project Management - Bodies of Knowledge
"Body of Knowledge" (BoK) is an inclusive term describing the sum of knowledge within the project and programme management profession. As with other p ...
Enterprise IT project management best practices
This last summer we wrapped up a very intense and fast paced project I was leading from the beginning of the year. It taught me a few things along wit ...
Innovation in project management: Inspiration from Dubai
I recently spoke at Dubai International Project Management Forum (DIPMF) and was struck by the innovative theme of the conference. Perhaps it shouldn& ...
Smashing The Rules of Project Management
Quite a while ago someone emailed me a document titled ’50 Rules of Project Management’. The ‘rules’ are all tongue-in-cheek a ...
Project Management : Interesting Terminologies
PMs are the most creative pros in the world; they have to figure out everything that could go wrong, before it does. There are many project managemen ...
greenwashing in Project Management
Greenwashing, what could that be? In this context greenwashing has nothing to do with any ecological objectives or global warming. Washing data green ...
How to Make Project Management Your Company’s Secret Weapon
When I was growing up, the old folks used to say there are only two things in life that are guaranteed: death and taxes.But wait. There’s a ...
Project Management Success from Pronouns. A typo? Nope.
In a matter of minutes, a student of mine opened my mind to a better way of thinking about projects, and more importantly how to make them perform bet ...
Project Management Process
The Project Management Process in a nutshell. To simplify project execution, you can break each project into phases. Each phase can further be ...
Evaluation of the discipline, profession, and growth of project management in an organisation
ReflectionThere's a clear difference between experienced and inexperienced project managers. Nowadays, project managers need more skills than before; ...
Why You Should Value Project Management
Part of the Dextra "Quick Hits" SeriesSome view project management as no more valuable than other skills. Others have felt the pain of a project that ...
Representative Inclusiveness in conjunction with Scrum Product Development
Recently when I was learning one of the fundamental topics of leadership or a modern leadership which is "Representative Inclusiveness", the first tho ...
How to survive project management for the non-project manager.
Many small companies and even departments in larger enterprises simply don’t have the need for a dedicated project manager and, more often than ...
Why project management matters for PR and comms
I’m a big fan of the benefits of project management. I was in a particularly daft meeting recently where all the issues could have been avoided ...
Why Is Project Management Is Considered As An Important Management Discipline
Imagine yourself going north for about 100 kilometres of distance in a dark night!You know the direction and the distance to be tr ...
Project Management in 3 Minutes
When the Pyramid of Giza was being built around 2500 BC, Project Management was not much of a fad. Maybe whip yielding Scrum Masters&nb ...