Does your Product Owner have a high OQ?
An article from Harvard Business Review reminded me that becoming an effective Product Owner (PO) requires a lot more than interpersonal skills, empowRead More…
Tag: improving project management
Don’t ignore appetite when it comes to risk response!
I’ll admit to being hyperbolic with the title of this article, but a question posed today in one of the project management LinkedIn discussion gRead More…
Create a culture of appreciation within your virtual team
Sabina Nawaz’s article “In Times of Crisis, a Little Thanks Goes a Long Way“, which was published this week on HBR.org, is a great rRead More…
How can we evaluate risks more objectively?
Objective: Expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations (MerriaRead More…
Use the 7 Habits to create highly effective agile teams
When Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s wrote his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, it was used by individuals for self-improvement but thRead More…
Do your experiments fail even before they are run?
(Many thanks to Scott W. Ambler for his tweet which inspired this article: “The experiment failed successfully!“)
One of the many traits aRead More…
Lessons in testing from a pandemic
Ontario has the second highest number of cases of COVID-19 within Canada but it lags all other provinces in terms of testing when measured on a per caRead More…
COVID-19 and agile are strange bed fellows
COVID-19 is like that car accident just up ahead which you know you shouldn’t be focusing on while driving, but which draws the attention of allRead More…
Do not compromise on knowledge when filling the Product Owner role
The product owner role is extremely challenging for most organizations to fill. It is also the role which has the greatest impact on achieving expecteRead More…
Use uncertainty poker to increase alignment on delivery approaches
Part of tailoring our approach to delivering a project needs to consider its relative level of uncertainty. While it is not the only determinant of coRead More…