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(Ruthless) Retrospectives for true business agility

#Retrospectives are not just an “#Agile avatar” of the traditional phase end lessons learned processes. They are a core practice of agility. This is what separates the winners from the losers. Those that achieve true business agility and those that don’t. However they are not easy. Too often, especially in large enterprises and programs, they are […]

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Metrics – What’s measured improves, Choose Wisely

“What’s measured improves” ― Peter F. Drucker The discussion about metrics is not a discussion about what we want to measure. It’s a discussion of what we want to improve. Before a project or a program embarks on defining metrics, it must have a clear definition of what they want to improve. Metrics are a

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Cost of Delay – An Economic Model for Decision Making

If you are not moving at the speed of the marketplace you’re already dead – you just haven’t stopped breathing yet. ~ Jack Welsh We are prioritizing in a world where time is precious and resources are scarce. Economics is all about scarcity. We can turn to economics to help us quickly discover, nurture and speed

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WIP Limits – The Science of Getting Things Done

This blog post is is second part of the series :  Why it makes perfect sense for Narendra Modi to use Kanban. If you came to this page directly, recommended to read part 1 first. A survey done in 2003 on e-government initiatives in developing/transitional countries revealed that only 15 percent of e government projects can

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Agile Project Management in an eGovernance Project

Amazing case study of Agile Project Management in an eGovernance Project. The key success factors in this are similar to the case study from GE (http://hrishikeshkarekar.com/2014/04/making-refrigerator-lean-start-up-and-agile/) Fundamental changes are needed to bring in agility. Things need to be done differently. The big areas to focus and make changes in the GE pilot were Supplier relations,

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Differences between Projects, Programs and Portfolio

For the ones who know, its obvious, but for those who don’t, a little help is good. Given below is my attempt to explain the basic differences between Projects, Programs and Portfolio.  Projects Programs Portfolio Definition (ISO)A project is a unique process consisting of a set of co-ordinated and controlled activities with start and finish

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Managing Projects and Herzberg’s two factor theory

The topic of interest today is what has more prominence in project management – methodology or intuition. Let us make an attempt to answer this using an analogy to Herzberg’s two factor theory.For those not familiar with Herzberg’s two factor theory, it is as follows:The theory (also known as Herzberg’s motivation-hygiene theory and Dual-Factor Theory)

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