Amongst some of my industry colleagues, SAP’s recent acquisition of hybris caused a tsunami of emotions, everything from “Oh my God! SAP just killed hybris” through to “Oh my God! SAP is now has a Digital offering, surely...
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Don’t break up a winning team
I am not a big soccer fan, but I know a lot of people who are. Any soccer fan can tell you that if you add the best soccer players of the world in one team and just let them play against FC Barcelona, they would definitely loose. Not because they are...
Read moreAgile software development in practice – Product backlog items
Some time ago I was working in a team of business analysts that were helping the product owner of a large consumer website to define product backlog items and make them ready to be implemented by the development teams. The product backlog items we...
Read moreEffective Testing in Agile Environments
According to the research conducted for the World Quality Report, more and more organizations are pushed to think about updating and optimizing their testing resources to drive down costs and time-to-market. Most of the 1,500 respondents interviewed...
Read moreWork Force Management (WFM) software. What does it do?
With contributions from Joe Vernon It makes you a better manager of headcount and labor costs. The solution identifies cost drivers, produces related metrics and builds a foundation of operational intelligence specific to labor. The data is...
Read moreHANA Lifecycle Services - Using an Outcome based approach to drive IT Target Operating Model change
Right so HANA is faster and can process more data but......How do you get the value? Where do I start? How do I take it to the next level? How do you make it stick? Where do I host it? Who has the new skills? Can I reuse my old skills? How will...
Read moreTransition to Agile (part 5) - Storytelling
Storytelling is a powerful way to communicate a message. So did you already tried this out in an Agile transformation? I did! and I like to share my story with you. This story gives people and organizations insight in the fixed patterns they live in...
Read moreScrum Values
Scrum is not a methodology. Scrum is a process, but of a non-repeatable kind. Scrum is a framework of rules, roles and principles that helps people and organizations emerge their real process, specific and fitting to their time and context. Scrum is...
Read moreBigger Data, Faster Reporting – What next? The Applification of SAP HANA
It’s widely acknowledged that HANA is “disruptive technology”. It’s guaranteed that SAP’s Business Intelligence capabilities, underpinned by HANA, will enable the processing and analysis of bigger data-sets, faster. The announcement of...
Read moreAgile Delivery in Hostile Environments
Working towards agile BPMMost organizations want to move to agile delivery, and for good reasons. Agile promises both to be much faster and to result in functionality that is closer to what users really want. In addition, agile allows you to declare...
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