Thoughts on empirical management, Business Agility and Enterprise Scrum (part 3/3) Although Scrum does not have prescribed roles for middle and other forms of management, needn’t have, there will obviously be a shift in management...
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MDM has an impact
The term (Master) Data Management almost cunningly misleads into thinking that it only affects data. Making changes to data just seems easy enough. Data are the objects stored in databases, such a description makes it nice and delimited. As always,...
Read moreThe customer-oriented enterprise: (2) Scrum in the land of Middle Management
Thoughts on empirical management, Business Agility and Enterprise Scrum (part 2/3) So, Scrum is to be applied for improving the relationship of an organization in a broad, business sense to markets, customers and competitors as part...
Read moreThe customer-oriented enterprise: (1) Scrum in the land of Extremistan
Thoughts on empirical management, Business Agility and Enterprise Scrum (part 1/3) The game of Scrum knows no more than 3 roles: Development Team, Product Owner and Scrum Master. These roles have proven to be sufficient for developing,...
Read moreThe two-speed Information Organisation: the BIM challenge for the next decade?
99% of the bottom-line impact for any organization is occurring at the coal-face within the very business processes that, attract, provision, service and communicate with our customers. Therefore, the strategic view of the aggregated...
Read moreUser eXperience (UX) on projects: how late is too late?
A common complaint from UX professionals is that they are involved too late in the project lifecycle. The stage when UX resources are involved will determine what they can do for the project, and in turn, the impact they can have. While it is best to...
Read moreThe drive towards customer-centricity: Journey or Destination?
CXO’s in an increasingly digital world are slowly starting to realise that the elusive ‘holistic view of the customer’ whilst rooted in the mystery of leading-edge data management approach and technology innovation, is primarily driven...
Read moreSpoilt for choice
Do you often find yourself, standing in the confectionery isle of a supermarket, looking at around 7-10 different packets of biscuits, unsure of which to choose? The one with nuts, or the one with chocolate chunks, oh wait, what about the one with...
Read moreLong term control with Master Data Management
New generations such as Generation X, Y, Einstein, Digital Natives and Screenagers seem to succeed in a much faster pace than generations once used to do. However they all have one major characteristic in common, their strong preference to share...
Read moreFlower-Power Agile Fluffiness
To all the dear people in the agile community and to the faint-hearted: this will not be an easy blog post. There was a time when being a software developer was a decent craft, requiring decent craftsmanship and yes also a lot of creativity, some...
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