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Agile Digital Transformation?
I am pretty passionate about methodology and Agile methods in particular. Agile is the future; that's for sure, but not pure Agile in very large-scale Digital Transformation projects. It won't work, couldn't work due to the nature of the program. You cannot...
Make Sure We Keep Talking
“Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking, and it’s greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this. Our greatest hopes...
Everyone wants to be Sherlock Holmes
Netflix, the great pastime and harbinger of the binge-watch, recently added the BBC show, Sherlock Holmes. In watching it, I found some parallels of common personalities, personas, and challenges within large-scale digital transformation projects. I see them both in...
Be Stubborn About Your Goals and Flexible About Your Methods
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...
Enterprise Digital Transformation is Like a Formula One Race Car
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...
Do Start-Ups have a Technical Advantage?
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...
Solve the problem. Provide a solution. Win.
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...
Finding a Friend in DX
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...
Value at Risk: Achieving Benefits Realization
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...