by Kiron Bondale | Nov 15, 2020 | Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, project management, Psychological Safety, team building
Harvard Business Review published an article by Sabina Nawaz this week on some challenges managers face when they delegate work to their staff. The gaps identified with team members being able to perform the tasks successfully included a lack of critical thinking, a...
by Kiron Bondale | Nov 8, 2020 | Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, project management
While there are many cases where we might have to use our powers of influence and persuasion to sell stakeholders on supporting what we feel is the right thing, I thought I’d share three specific examples which might be a much harder sell than usual. While Fred Brooks...
by Kiron Bondale | Oct 25, 2020 | Agile, improving project management, project management, Valuable projects
Emphasizing flow through the reduction or elimination of batching of work items is desirable but this is not always efficient or practical. So what are some of the factors which might force us to batch work items? Whether it is equipment, materials or people’s time,...
by Kiron Bondale | Oct 18, 2020 | Agile, Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, organizational change management
A question which I’m asked regularly during my classes is what the best place is to start an agile transformation within a company? Given a choice, I’d prefer to use the cop-out (but correct) answer “It depends”, but otherwise I usually respond that you’d want to do...
by Kiron Bondale | Oct 11, 2020 | Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, PMO metrics, Process Peeves, project management
I usually advise my students to encourage their team members to not provide padded work estimates, but rather to make schedule contingencies visible and tie these contingencies to milestones rather than to individual activities. This is intended to counter the...
by Kiron Bondale | Oct 4, 2020 | Agile, Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, project management, Valuable projects
Lean thinking encourages us to focus on maximizing value delivered to stakeholders rather than maximizing the utilization of the people, equipment or material resources contributing to value streams. Two reasons for this recommendation are: Systems which are run with...
