Jutta Eckstein works as an independent coach, consultant, and trainer. She has helped many teams and organizations worldwide to make an Agile transition. Ms. Eckstein has unique experience in applying Agile processes within medium-sized to large distributed mission-critical projects. She is the coauthor (with John Buck) of the book Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy: Survive & Thrive on Disruption. Other books include Agile Software Development in the Large: Diving into the Deep, Agile Software Development with…
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November 30, 2004 | Authored By: Robert Charette
Kevin Brennan is a business architect and Professor at George Brown College, Canada. Mr. Brennan is best known for leading the creation and development of the Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK® Guide) and other business analysis standards and was the lead author of Digital Product Management, available from BCS Learning. He has a Master's in Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Penn State and holds several industry certifications in business process and project management. He can be reached at kevin@newba.com.…
Murray Cantor has been a leader for over 30 years, applying leading-edge ideas in software and systems development. Currently, Dr. Cantor is CTO of Aptage. Recently, he served as an IBM Distinguished Engineer, a member of the Rational CTO Council, and the Rational Lead for Analytics and Optimization for Software and Systems, where he led the application of predictive analytics to software and systems planning/development as well as adapting Lean techniques throughout the development lifecycle.
Previously, Dr. Cantor served as Lead Engineer for Rational Services and as developer of…
In this Executive Update, we describe the application of Scrum in the restaurant business. This environment is similar to that of Lean hardware Scrum, in that shifts are repeatedly creating and delivering products in short cycles with high quality. Process efficiency and cycle time become the key metrics for production.
September 19, 2019 | Authored By: Riccardo Mariti, Jeff Sutherland
August 17, 2005 | Authored By: Ben Radhakrishnan
Charalampos Z. Patrikakis is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of West Attica (UniWA), Greece. He is also Director of UniWA’s Computer Networks & Services Research (CoNSeRT) Lab. Dr. Patrikakis has more than 100 publications in book chapters, international journals, and conferences and has made two contributions to national legislation. He is a senior member of IEEE, Associate Editor responsible for special issues in IEEE’s IT Professional, and counselor of IEEE’s student branch at UniWA. Dr. Patrikakis has acted as…
Magesh Kasthuri is a Distinguished Senior Member Technical Staff and Principal Consultant of the Cloud Practice at Wipro Limited. He is a Blockchain Council Certified Blockchain Expert v2, an Azure-Certified Architect, an AWS-Certified Associate Architect, and an IBM-Certified Big Data Architect. Dr. Kasthuri has published papers in blockchain, cloud technology, DevOps, and digital transformation architecture in international journals and conferences and has been granted patents in the areas of cloud, DevOps, machine learning, and blockchain. Dr. Kasthuri earned a PhD in deep learning and…
THE TEAM IS DEAD ...
December 31, 1998 | Authored By: Rob Thomsett
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November 30, 2004 | Authored By: Robert Charette
As virtual teams grow in popularity, their leaders increasingly ask, "What should I do to manage them effectively?" We undertook our survey to help answer this question. We focused on the actions leaders can take to successfully deal with their team's virtuality.
June 30, 2006 | Authored By: Carol Saunders
Aurelio Ravarini is Director of CETIC, Research Center on Information Systems, at the Università Cattaneo (LIUC, Italy), where he is also Senior Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the School of Engineering and Director of the advanced course on service-oriented management engineering at the master level. His research expertise is in strategic information systems, knowledge management systems, and information systems development, the latter of which is focused on small and medium-sized companies. Dr. Ravarini is Visiting Professor at IESEG (France) and the University of Aarhus (…
This Advisor examines the potential of offshore wind farms and the challenges of balancing climate change mitigation with biodiversity protection goals. Significant advances in technology and expanded government support have led to increased development of offshore wind farms, but large-scale renewable energy projects should be planned and implemented with biodiversity considerations embedded, so that one environmental goal is not sacrificed for another.
June 28, 2023 | Authored By: Rafael Sardá
It's not an overstatement to say Lean thinking is all about customer value. Anything that does not create customer value is waste and should be eliminated.
July 7, 2016 | Authored By: Steve Bell
Benjamin L. Schooley is a Research Faculty member at the School of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Schooley's research and professional work has addressed several substantive areas, including electronic healthcare systems, emergency management and disaster preparedness, e-commerce development and strategy, regional technology planning, and e-government deployment. His recent work on performance management information systems for emergency medical response has received national funding from the NSF and the US Department of Transportation and includes…
In creative ensembles where leadership isn’t an assigned role or position, a series of actions or behaviors enables collective creativity and can be enacted by every member of the team. In these groups, it’s imperative that every member participates in leadership actions and is prepared to take the lead at any moment.
This Advisor explores long-term and short-term solutions to the issues posed by the "four horsemen" of not-so-strategic HR practices.
September 9, 2020 | Authored By: Robert Ogilvie, Jeffrey McNally
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January 31, 2003 | Authored By: Neil Roodyn
Sunita Lodwig is a Professor in information technology at the University of South Florida (USF), Sarasota-Manatee. Prior to academia, she worked in the corporate arena for more than 20 years in the field of telecommunications (with AT&T Bell Labs and Motorola). At USF, Dr. Lodwig shares her industry experience and insight to illustrate and explain complex concepts. For the last 12 years, she has been instrumental in developing and expanding USF’s IT program as well developing relationships with local industry and businesses to support an internship program. She can be reached at …