Success in executing business strategy remains elusive. Norton and Kaplan claim that nine out of ten companies fail to execute strategy. This is similar to the success rate, or should…
Author: Fernando Santiago
Consultant, Trainer and Speaker in Organizational Project Management.
Agile and the Gates of Hell
In the beginning there was chaos. On the first day God initiated the project, on the second day defined requirements, then design and you know how the story ends. On…
Is Project Management a skeleton from the Industrial Revolution?
The pace of adoption of innovation in project managementIt is the end of October now, and as Halloween approaches, we drive by graveyards, open tombs, and skeletons, some of them…
So you think you can dance?
High energy teams are not exclusive to agile. One of the principles of agile approaches that has a strong contribution is time boxing, as everything in agile has a fixed…
A BS Case is a business case that doesn't have a case
How can a practice that makes so much sense be distorted and abused to the point of losing whatever credibility it had left? The idea of forecasting the benefits and…
The Kamikaze Agile Pilot
Almost every organization that explores the transition from waterfall to agile uses the approach of a pilot project which, in many cases, turns into a “kamikaze” operation, doomed by design.…