IT Competitiveness: Continuous Improvement for a VUCA Market
Information Technology plays a crucial role in the transformation of modern organizations. Technologies are revolutionizing effective, data-driven decision-making, increasing efficiency and reducing costs. Whether for a Project Management Office (PMO) or Lean Portfolio Management (LPM), an IT Service Center (ITSM), your IT department or your [...].
Are project team standards to be proscribed... 🚫🤔❓
Are team norms (aka "team charter") a taboo or even banned practice within your organization? How is this practice perceived by managers 🤫, teams 🤷♂️ou your agile coaches 🧐? For my part, I'm convinced that the success of projects depends in particular on effective collaboration and [...]
Lean Portfolio Management
Respond to a VUCA market with a "Growth Mindset" rather than a "Fixed Mindset" In the ever-changing business world (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) and combined with constantly evolving technologies, companies are faced with the need to remain competitive by placing their customers and employees at the heart of their strategy, by [...]
Development Value Streams: Reveal and harness hidden potential
The objective of value stream improvement is to achieve the highest business value in the shortest possible time, consistently, sustainably and with the highest level of quality. Value Stream is one of the (5) Lean principles, and for a number of reasons, it's wise to have a good understanding of the [...].
Optimize your organization's throughput with the Kanban approach
Boost your organization's performance with a scalable and adaptive "Start where you are" approach to accelerate value delivery. Stop starting, Start finishing Flow comes from one of the (5) principles of Lean. The aim is to implement actions that will accelerate the creation of value - a subject [...].
Agile Transformations or Focusing on Outcomes?
Revolution or Evolution? If your executive committee has a "Top Down" Agile Transformation mandate/program treated as a "project" using a deterministic "Big Bang" approach, big "upfront" planning with a start date and "deadline" thinking your organization will magically transform into an agile butterfly, advice: don't do it! From the [...]
The Lean-Agile mindset
Agility is a state of mind defined by values, guided by principles and manifested in a variety of practices. You have to "Be" Agile before you can "Do Agility"! In the age of digitalization and Industry 4.0, it is essential for any organization wishing to respond rapidly to changing market conditions, to [...]
Successful agile transformations: 5 key elements to consider
In today's fast-paced, ever-changing business world, more and more organizations are turning to agility because its mindset, values & principles, and varied frameworks enable organizations to move closer to organizational agility, i.e. being able to [...].
Managers, discover the causes that will undermine your transition to agility...
Deliver better solutions, in less time, at lower cost, more predictably, with less risk. Faster time-to-market, increased revenues, quality products, higher productivity, happier, more engaged employees. These are all reasons to make the transition to Agile (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Disciplined Agile, Lean [...]).