A Pragmatic Systems Approach to Change

Matt Barcomb, founder of OdBox, has over 18 years of experience as a product development leader that takes a pragmatic, systems approach to change. He partners with organizations to help leadership teams develop and deploy strategy, optimize product management and development, and evolve traditional HR functions into modern talent development practices. Matt can be found Read More …

Interfacing Agile w Conventional Projects

Excerpt from a recent Podcast with Jon M. Quigley PMP CTFL a principal and founding member of Value Transformation, a product development training and cost improvement organization established in 2009. He has nearly twenty five years of product development experience, ranging from embedded hardware and software through verification and project management. From the podcast: Joe: Read More …

When Do You Use Scrum Versus Waterfall

Jon M. Quigley PMP CTFL is a principal and founding member of Value Transformation, a product development training and cost improvement organization established in 2009. He has nearly twenty five years of product development experience, ranging from embedded hardware and software through verification and project management. He holds multiple degrees, seven patents, has authored and Read More …

Go See How The Job Is Getting Done

I asked Ken Rolfes a few questions about Lean 3P in a podcast, Rolfes on Lean, and we ended up discussing the Customer’s Job to be Done.  Ken can be found at KDR Associates. An Excerpt from the Podcast: Joe Dager: Clayton Christensen used the words “jobs to done”. You got to look at what Read More …

Should Agile be used as Your Portfolio Manager?

A part 2 of yesterday’s blog postbased on this related podcast and transcription: Leffingwell on the Lean Agile Train. Dean Leffingwell is a consultant, entrepreneur, software executive and technical author who provides product strategy, business advisory services and enterprise-level agility coaching to large software enterprises. An excerpt from the podcast: Joe: When we go into Read More …