I found an article on Forbes dubbed "The End of Agile," and boy-oh-boy did it resonate with me. However, in the Digital Transformation world of project management, one must be open-minded and flexible, but also stubborn as hell. Opposing thoughts, you say? I don't...
Indulge me a tad bit as I draw a comparison I was thinking on the other day. Let me explain. More significant (shall we say enterprise) F1 teams such as Ferrari, Mercedes, Red Bull, and McLaren spend a yearly budget of almost $400 million for...
The pure and simple reason behind the tech revolution and innovation within the business world (and moreover in the Digital Transformation space) comes down to a few simple things. Who can do it better, faster, and stronger? Several things give startups a...
By now, it is painfully clear that we live in the age of the consumer. It’s assuredly a buyers market, and the buyer has many, many options. The omnipresent technology to consume personalized, contextual information, make purchases, and run businesses are what...
So far, the push within 2019 and the app world of Digital Transformations has been around team collaboration by way of shared applications. Skype (for Business), MS Teams (including One Drive), Slack, Adobe, Google and others have all pushed hard to tie more people...
In the extremely expensive, complex, and challenging world of ERP programs, and or large-scale digital transformations, the focus trends to being four key points. Those points are delivering the program on time, on budget, on scope, and moreover with full benefits...
Within the realms of a digital transformation, the Organizational Change Management (OCM) group is an important player in the overall health of a program. They are tasked with multiple initiatives in order to be effectual in the successful implementation. They can be...
In today's project management world, the term “at speed” has become clear to many as being “at the speed of change.” Meaning that with so many focal points of a program/project, a plethora of in motion elements with inter-value stream (swim lane, or whatever you want...
My career (and more recently my company) has been built on being an independent consultant or voice for those programs or projects that are leaders within the constructs of a Project (Program) Management Office. The reasoning is/was always clear to me, but the...
I recently read a blog by Brian Solis of Altimeter, an independent research company that focuses on disruptive technology trends and found some encouraging, yet still alarming news on what their research is indicating as we wrap up the first quarter of 2019. ...