Traditional project management was built on three pillars or three P’s: project, program, and portfolio. Organizations are starting to recognize the importance of products and services, in the delivery of value to customers, and implementing strategy in organizations. Project managers not only need to understand the role of their project to support the strategy of […]
Next Webinar: Bullet Points: Mastery or Madness?
Decision-makers in modern organizations commonly demand briefings in the form of bullet points or a series of series of bullet points. That leads to trouble, because the bullet point form isn’t capable of presenting faithful representations of every reality or every logical argument. And the root of the problem lies in the nature of the […]
Next Webinar: The Foundational Books (Rescheduled)
Every profession—and every discipline—has a set of foundational books that define the essential principles, the guiding philosophies and the essential practices of a given domain. Every person is unique. Each of us is a product of our genes, our formative experiences and the path of evolution we have followed into adulthood. For many of us, […]
Next Webinar: We Are All Liminal Now
It feels almost redundant to say this: we are living through what feels like an enormously unprecedented period. It’s not, wholly. The world has seen crises like this before. But not often. The magnitude—and the visibility—of the Covid-19 pandemic has taken over our imaginations, and our lives, in a way that few saw coming, and […]
Next Webinar: Refactoring the Agile Quadrants
Agile development hit mainstream recognition a long time ago. Yet there is often uncertainty and turmoil around what “agile development” means, in theory and in practice, and the place of testing within it. The confusion affects agile projects and the people in them. There have been some discussion points, such as Mike Cohn’s Agile Testing […]
Next Webinar: Change without Authority, Only Influence
While we often don’t have any formal authority or power to initiate a change, we might have influence. Regardless of where we sit in the power structure, it is possible to become a driving force for change. It’s not easy, it might cost us more than we are willing to pay, but making change happen […]