by Kiron Bondale | Apr 18, 2021 | Agile, project management
Whether your team follows a specific framework or has taken a mix-and-match approach with its practices, a tenet of agile is the use of short feedback loops to support inspection and adaptation. Whether your team sets a regular cadence for external product reviews or...
by Kiron Bondale | Apr 11, 2021 | Agile, Facilitating Organization Change, management failure, project management, Psychological Safety, Risk Management, team building
HBR published an article this week on how leaders can help their teams to recover quicker from disruptions. Given the events of the past year, this topic is apropos and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. In the article, the author introduces the...
by Kiron Bondale | Mar 28, 2021 | Agile, improving project management, management failure, project management, Project scheduling, Risk Management
A project manager asked me a question which I’ve frequently been posed over my career. How should I deal with a stakeholder who, when I provide a rough order of magnitude ranged estimate early in the life of a project, insists on holding me accountable to the lower...
by Kiron Bondale | Mar 21, 2021 | Agile, improving project management, project management, Risk Management
This article represents the confluence of three separate concepts I read about this week. The first came when I read Michael Küsters’s article Why WSJF is Nonsense which details the downside of blindly ranking work packages based on the Weighted Shortest Job First...
by Kiron Bondale | Mar 7, 2021 | Agile, Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, project management, Psychological Safety
Accountability is a popular word in delivery. It is one of the four classification categories in roles and responsibility tools such as R.A.C.I. charts. The underlying intent is sound. If multiple people are responsible for contributing to the completion of an...
by Kiron Bondale | Jan 31, 2021 | Agile, Facilitating Organization Change, management failure, Process Peeves, team building
I’ve previously written about the importance for an organization’s operational capabilities which support delivery capabilities to evolve when there is a move to increase business agility. Whether it is procurement, finance or human resources, all supporting areas...
