I hear many businesses that are interested in ‘doing something with SharePoint.’ That is kind of like saying I’d like to deploy a Swiss army knife. Depending on what the goals of the business are, SharePoint can be a lot of different things. This post tries to explore what those are. First, let’s start with …
Lean Presentations
As I prepare today to create a training course that I will be presenting on how to demonstrate ROI on BPM projects, I found Tom Perry's post timely. In it, he applies lean concepts to creating presentations. Among his suggestions: Splitting large things up into small batches for focus Applying the “5 Whys” to drill …
Amazing Adventures of Kanban
OK, I couldn't stop laughing at Jon Miller's post taking a creative look at the 60 year history of Kanban. It is as instructive as it is funny. To get a flavor, here's an excerpt: Kanban Gains Superpowers Pokayoke has the power to prevent mistakes. Jiodka frees people to run machines intelligently, rather than be …
Ten Practices for Applying Lean Agile to Other Knowledge Work
Dean Leffingwell has a great post up with the above title. His approach and conclusions fit well with my Laws of Agile. Here’s a summary from Dean’s great work which is very practical: He offers that by replacing the word ‘software’ with ‘solutions’ in founding agile principle statements, they can apply broadly to other knowledge …
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Invest in Growth, Savings or Risk Reduction?
ABPMP Denver put on a great panel discussion on Tuesday evening on the topic of the state of project work in the current economy. First thanks to the great panelists for sharing a collective generation of great insight: Bill Gilbert, EVP and COO, Statera; Donald Davidoff, Group VP Strategic Systems, Archstone; and David Neitz, VP …
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Lean, Agile – Kanban, Scrum
David Anderson at Agile Management has two new blog posts that got me thinking. The first is How to Start with Kanban which lays out how to implement Kanban for software development in 10 easy steps (I like its simplicity.) The second is Blogosphere Buzz about Lean & Kanban which is a comprehensive review of …
What Happened at Lean & Kanban
The Lean & Kanban 2009 conference, wrapped up this week and there has been a lot of buzz about it. I like a summary by email from Dean Leffingwell over at The Agile Executive. Among Dean’s takeaways on the conference are: I obviously think Lean Software will be big. It will be to the enterprise …
Balanced Scorecard Tools
I am a big believer in creating an overall score card for an organization and measuring performance against it. The Balanced Scorecard remains one of the best ways to accomplish that goal for an organization. I recently found a great set of tools from Mark Graham Brown that simplify getting started. I especially like the …
Denver ABPMP Meets Tomorrow
If you can be in Denver tomorrow, Feb 19 between 4:30pm and 6:00pm, please join us. We are meeting at: Oracle Building, Denver Tech Center 7700 Technology Way Denver, CO Guest Speaker: Steve Towers Moments of Truth, Making customer satisfaction work in your favor Steve Towers is the founder of the Business Process Group (www.bpgroup.org) …
Gartner Says Most Organizations Lack All the Skills Needed to Implement and Optimize Their Business Processes
While this article is not new, its title caught my eye while doing some other research. Quite a bold statement from Gartner. I wonder why there's not the typical 80% chance by 2010 parenthetical? I do agree with the extract: “Successful BPM requires an agile iterative approach to process change. Many internal IT organizations and …
Horizon Line Group 