WHY BAD THINGS KEEP HAPPENING
February 27, 2001 | Authored By: Robert Charette
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I've been thinking recently that the term "self-organizing" has outlived its usefulness in the agile community and needs to be replaced. While self-organizing is a good term, it has, unfortunately, become confused with anarchy in the minds of many. Why has this occurred?
September 13, 2007 | Authored By: Jim Highsmith
Successful organizations know that no matter how good the technology, it is the people who make it work. When people come first, customers win.
July 26, 2017 | Authored By: Bob Furniss
For the past few years, risk management has been a hot topic, and I would hope by now that every project manager has had some indoctrination regarding the importance of managing risks.
October 6, 1999 | Authored By: Kathleen Peters
I attended my son's graduation from college yesterday. That should be an unqualified joyous celebration, except my son graduated in engineering from Virginia Tech University, in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
May 15, 2007 | Authored By: Dwayne Phillips
When we examine the assumptions underlying approaches to project management or nearly any other business process, it is clear that quite a number of people confuse formality
May 16, 2001 | Authored By: Jim Highsmith
Essentially, business activity monitoring (BAM) data, which is collected and produced by a business process management (BPM)-type application, is just another subset of BI within the organization. BAM data may be pushed to a big data repository, but a BAM repository should never be used for big data analysis. BAM environments are characterized by online, real-time users, where throughput and performance are paramount. BAM queries and reports should be targeted to simple operational status views against optimized, normalized tables.
February 17, 2015 | Authored By: Frank Teti
"The popularity of social networking sites, coupled with our 24/7, always-on mobile devices, means that data and opinions are always 'flowing.'" -- Matt Ganis and Avinash Kohirkar, Guest Editors
December 26, 2013 | Authored By: Matt Ganis, Avinash Kohirkar
In this Update Peter Kaminski looks at Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a tool for thinking about environmental and psychological elements that factor into the evolution of a Scrum team's development.
March 26, 2014 | Authored By: Peter Kaminski
This issue of Amplify features a collection of articles that explore how boards can evolve beyond conventional roles to become active stewards of long-term value — drawing on leader character, data and analytics, behavioral insight, structural design, and strategic engagement.
July 14, 2025 | Authored By: Mirko Benischke
One of the consequences of the dot-bomb explosion is confusion about what to do about e-business. Is e-business a flash in the pan? Where will e-business go from here? How can we use e-business in our company? Should we?
June 26, 2001 | Authored By: Chris Pickering
Last week, the technology and operations management faculty at Harvard Business School convened for its annual "Research Day," where members reflect on the direction in which things are headed for our department and the field.
May 1, 2002 | Authored By: Robert Austin
The Agile Triangle, shown in Figure 1, was introduced in
April 1, 2010 | Authored By: Jim Highsmith
Today you see "impediment management processes" defined at the enterprise level, usually based on Excel spreadsheets or your favorite trusted ticket system. Sometimes managers feel that it takes too long in their organization to remove impediments, so they set up an impediment Kanban system to reduce the lead time of the impediment removal. Am I the only one who thinks that something is wrong here?
August 6, 2015 | Authored By: Jens Coldewey
A project can reconfigure the arrangement of distributed resources, human or otherwise, at any point in the lifecycle of the project, especially with the help of enterprise architecture (EA) to substantially rethink project technology and even organizational approaches. Projects can and should reinvent themselves.
April 1, 2020 | Authored By: Vince Kellen