With the best of intentions, many IT Managers and CIOs have inadvertently set themselves and their teams up for failure through an overly prescriptive focus on process, metrics, and best practice.
Great sketch by Ken Hope from our partners Motive8 that illustrates a prevalent attitude in NZ organisations – one that causes a lot of challenges.
There is danger in attempting to change the world in one step. Whilst a big fan of Agile methods, I spend a lot of time ensuring that people understand the magnitude of the task they have ahead of them, and how difficult it will be, without curbing their enthusiasm.
I have experimented with Agile project management tools over the years, trying to find something that has a good balance of simplicity and functionality. Nothing beats a good old-fashioned “project wall” or board for radiating information to the team and stakeholders … or so I thought, until I discovered Pivotal Tracker.
It appears that great minds think alike. Further to my post about the application of the cloud computing paradigm to other areas, Peugeot has just announced its new Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS?) offering.
As an agile and lean practitioner, I find that the theory of abstraction offered by the cloud meshes with my thoughts on business, and have started wondering how we can apply this more generally.
