Sliding to disaster
by jed simms on August 18, 2011
A tool gaining popularity is Rob Thomsett’s sliders. The idea is simple: there are six sliders/options that measure project success with a scale of 1 (low) to 5 (high). At the outset of the project the business is asked to (…)
The speed of change
by jed simms on August 11, 2011
There is a belief that business is changing so fast that you need to be extremely agile and responsive to cope. If you can’t respond you’ll miss the window of opportunity. Is this true? Yes and no. Yes – when (…)
This is not a process
by jed simms on August 3, 2011
The technical architects appear to be taking over the world. Technical architecture diagrams are appearing all over the place as “Strategy on a page”, as operating models and, worse of all, as process charts. They are not process charts. Architecture (…)