The end of an era
As Lean enthusiasts might be tempted to celebrate the demise of General Motors and the assumption by Toyota of the #1 auto maker rank, James P. Womack* gives us pause to think about the end of an era. *Author of “The Machine That Changed the …
Lamentations of flaccid Scrum and a case for SINO
I’ve been updating myself on the activites in the Prince2 camp to update this project management framework. One thing that stuck is the lamentations about the large number of PINO projects. PINO is an acronym (actually an initialism) for Prince In Name Only. In the …
Scrum is a Change Management process!
Right now I’m sitting at the back of the class while my good friend André is conducting an introduction workshop on ITSM (IT Service Management) using the ITIL framework at a major retailer. He tells a story to illustrate the difference between incident management and …
Earth Hour – Saturday 28 March 2009
Being Agile includes working at a sustainable pace. That means we have time for important things outside of work. Like our family, our health, our faith and our planet Earth. I invite you to invest an hour together with a billion more people in our …
New ball points game record?
Last night Mike and I ran Boris Gloger’s “ball points” game for the monthly Cape Town SPIN meeting. We had a group of twenty-something IT professionals who got off to a flying start by immediately organising themselves into the classic concentric circle formation. Yet their …
