Alan Bustamante is active in the Agile Communities and plays a leadership role within Agile Cincinnati; as well as, speaking at conferences and professional groups across the planet. Xcelerate Partners is a technology consulting firm focused on helping organizations rapidly deliver high quality software products using agile development techniques. They provide agile training, coaching and Read More …
A few of the Agile Discussions without including Kanban. I have a separate Stack for Kanban. This is a collection of Business901 Podcast Transcriptions, called Stacks (see below) through my Issuu channel: Agile without Kanban A collection of Business901 Podcast Transcriptions that centered on applying Lean, Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints to the Supply Read More …
Joseph Michelli is my guest this week and as always, Joe made the podcast…well, a Michelli Experience. We discussed his new book, Driven to Delight, which I recommend. When you reflect for a moment on how a product-centric Mercedes-Benz transformed into a customer-centric organization, well it is very difficult to even imagine. The culture not only had Read More …
In a recent podcast I asked author, Billee Howard, “What sort of skills do I need to develop as a company or an entrepreneur to participate. Is there a set of skills I need?” Related Podcast and Transcription: Introduction to We-Commerce Billee: Well, I think that it really goes back to understanding the environment that we’re Read More …
If there’s positive buzz AND we offer hope AND an enabling environment AND a sticky solution AND expanded comfort zones AND the right inviter This is the shorthand version of a change effort that Les Robinson depicts in the book, Changeology: How to Enable Groups, Communities, and Societies to Do Things They’ve Never Done Before. In the Read More …
One of the best books I have read and certainly the one that has influenced me the most on Agile Project Management is Jim Highsmith’s book of the same name. I have referenced his material for many years on this blog. We are not short of Project Management books and Agile books, in general, but Read More …