30% Time Wasted Looking for Data, 50% Success Rate Finding It

A fact that Kim Robertson , the author of over 100 discipline specific training packages, 3 fiction books and articles for CM Trends and various other trade publications from industrial arts to Configuration Management, stated in a recent podcast. His latest collaboration Configuration Management: Theory, Practice, and Application is Excerpt from the Podcast: Joe:   One Read More …

Should You Use More Than One Project Methodology?

In the project world, seldom, if ever, do you see any discussion about using multiple project methodologies. When you think about it, is every methodology good at enterprise management? Is every methodology scalable? When we think about the variety of projects that are there for our use, Waterfall, Scrum, Agile, Kanban, and a host of Read More …

Is This Planning Cycle Still Relevant?

I created this over seven years ago. Though I might change a few words and add methods like Kanban, I believe there is still a lot merit. What do you think? The Planning Cycle from Business901 Adapted from the book, Lean Project Management: Eight Principles For Success

Managing Scrum of Scrums

Jon M. Quigley PMP CTFL 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 contributed to numerous books and magazine articles as well as teaching and speaker at technical schools, universities and conferences on a variety Read More …

Keys to Building a Lean Agile Software Enterprise

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. Related Podcast and Transcription: Leffingwell on the Lean Agile Train An excerpt from the podcast: Joe:  What are the keys to building a Lean-Agile software enterprise? Dean:  Working towards Read More …

Lean in Food Processing

Jerry Rosenthal started on his process improvement journey where he entered the world of medical device and worked with such companies like Cardinal Health. Jerry’s expertise is primarily in regulated environments such as food, beverage and pharmaceutical production and packaging. Jerry has been successful at taking principles and tools from manufacturing and applying them to Read More …