Conversations in Project Planning

Alan Mossman of The Change Business trained as an architect and worked for many years in management and organization development. He only returned to construction in 2000 building on his knowledge and understanding of collaboration, systems thinking, quality and lean. I asked Alan about the promised conversation cycle. Related Podcast and transcription: A Lean Project 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 …

Limitations to Dialogue Mapping?

In last week’s podcast (Podcast and transcription: Shared Understanding with Dialogue Mapping) , I asked KC Burgess Yakemovic of Cognexus Group that question: Joe:   One of the things that challenges me when I’m looking at it is that I’m not sure let’s say how often I would use it or what’s the limitations to Dialogue Read More …

A Salute to PPD

To some, Dota 2 is just a video game. To Peter “PPD” Dager, it’s a career. Watch as PPD prepares for the biggest video game tournament to ever take place, The International 4: a 10 million dollar gaming tournament in Seattle where the best Dota 2 teams in the world compete for the largest e-sports Read More …

Using the Power of Visualization in Business

  Michael Gelb explains the power of visualization and how it relates to innovation and creativity. You can find out more n Michael’s new book: Creativity On Demand: How to Ignite and Sustain the Fire of Genius. Related Podcast and Transcription: The Power of QiGong Joe:   When you think of it in sports, it’s become Read More …

When to Use Dialogue Mapping

This past week, I have investigated Dialogue Mapping and been starting to use it. The context that I first used it in was capturing meeting notes which I could argue the pros and cons of this, but find for virtual meetings particularly interesting and better than most other attempts. The one problem I have found Read More …