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Horizontal Management – Developing shared framework: Working for the same goals
When we work as a team, we usually work for the same goal(s). There will be times when we might stray away from the goals that were originally specified and we will not realize it. By developing a...
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Horizontal Management – Building support structures: To keep Horizontal team...
Even though a “horizontal structure” is flat in nature, it does still need a (vertical) support structure. The main purpose of a support structure is to help managers build lasting relationships and...
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Beginning Process Improvement – What to do first
“Existing processes must be described before they can be well understood, managed, and improved. An organization must then define what these processes should be before attempting to support them with...
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Rapid Agile – Real-time Actionable Prioritized Individual Delivery
So what does come after Scrum/Kanban/Agile? The evolution of the SDLC continues as expected and if you look at the trend, the focus has been to get things done quicker – Rapid. Andy @ Assembla calls it...
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Maturing from a StartUp to a StartedUp culture – Series Part 2
The Startup and the 3 P’s: Product, Process and People I will not pretend to know everything about startups and startup culture, but I will list the reasons why startup culture is exciting, at least...
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Maturing from a StartUp to a StartedUp culture – Series Part 3
Several years ago I had a Volvo (88 760 GLE) and one day I noticed little streams of smoke from under the hood every time I would get back home; I had little experience with cars back then so I took it...
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Maturing from a StartUp to a StartedUp culture – Series Part 4
The takeaway from the previous post on KPI and metrics was that we should proactively monitor process and optimize as needed; just because it worked when you were a startup does not mean it will work...
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Maturing from a StartUp to a StartedUp culture – Series Part 5
People growth – Old blood vs New blood I wrote my first post here on Jan 23 2011 and that post was titled “Startups – importance of your team“; Its been a little over 2 years since I wrote that post....
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RAPID Agile: Focus on Product and Customer by mixing Scrum and Kanban – ScrumBan
We are usually torn between building more “product” or satisfying the “customer”. Prioritize Customer (maintaining product) Fix and release to save the world Prioritize Product (building more product)...
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RAPID Agile: Customer Focus – Defect Management
Before we dive back into defining an approach that mixes Product and Custom focus, we should probably ask “How does one focus on the customer?” In an ideal world there are no defects; but since there...
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