Leadership
Struggling with missed deadlines, messy processes, or poor visibility? Learn how to tell if your company needs a PMO, what it should do, and how to build one that actually works.
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Is there a scrum team and who is it? Good question — let’s strip the fluff and nail it down: When someone says “when the Scrum Team picks up the ticket”, who are they referring to? The entire cross-functional delivery team includes: BUT — the developers specifically pull work into progress (coding, testing, designing, etc). […]
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Whether it’s project management, policies, leadership or toxic teammates, here’s how team dynamics really get wrecked—and what it costs companies.
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Let’s get ahead of it: 3-week sprints are “allowed” and not inherently wrong, but they just don’t make sense. This should be obvious. They’re a red flag when you see them. A typical agile scrum team doesn’t use 3 week sprints. If you’re running Agile Scrum and you’re using 3-week sprints, your team might already […]
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When it comes to hiring, most people start with a checklist—skills, qualifications, years of experience, references. But I’ve always believed that looking for people to join a team should be more than just ticking boxes. Finding the right UX designer for our team is about aligning personality, adaptability, and vision. It is not simply about […]
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I’m remote first. And, I was before the pandemic. I work with on a Macbook with two Asus Zenscreens and my hotspot so I’m ready to be productive anytime, anywhere. My entire office fits in my backpack along with a mobile content studio consisting of mics, mobile cameras, tripods, and lights ready to record or […]
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Finance is changing, rapidly. Blockchain, crypto, and decentralized finance (DeFi) are not just buzzwords-they represent transformative technologies that will redefine the very foundation of financial services. For finance veterans in micro-lending, finance, risk, and analytics, these technologies open a new frontier for innovation and growth, especially within the unbanked or micro-financing space. This is Jamie […]
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If you look up the basics of Agile Scrum you’ll get something like the 3 pillars of “transparency, inspection and adaption”. Even more useful, the 5 core values are commitment, focus, openness, respect, and courage. The six principles of Empirical Process Control, Self-Organization, Time-Boxing, Value-Based Prioritization, Iterative Development, and Collaboration. Courage? What? Got it? Are […]
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I see it all the time. More often than not, companies mirror their physical organization in their project management process. They’ll have stand-ups within a functional team, have individual meetings that cause information silos, improperly attribute work requests and more. However, this organization is missing the essence of Agile-Scrum: cross-functional teams. But if a company’s […]
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After 32 years, I was 6 months gone before I made a brief return. It’s official, this is home now. There was nothing back there for me. It never was home. I’d been architecting a pivot in my life for years. I was well on my way before Covid. I was anticipating my sons going […]
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