Oct 7, 2021Insight: Make Meetings Work - Two Year SurveyMeetings seem to cause difficulties for organizations everywhere. With video, phone and hybrid work becoming the norm, it’s critical that...
Aug 17, 2021Article: Preparing for a Project Sponsor MeetingSponsors are critical to almost all projects. They’re the people who get budgets approved, they’re the ones who provide the energy and...
Jan 14, 2021Get your office reopening off to a flying start: A return to COVID-NormalAs the COVID vaccines begin to be distributed and rolled out around the world, it is critical that we plan for an effective reopening of...
Oct 26, 2020Insight: Why is process mapping so important during COVID and remote working?Even before the pandemic, many organisations were moving their method of working towards flexibility. Remote work, client-site work,...
Sep 24, 2020Insight: A project manager view of agile project risks and difficultiesWhat difficulties and risks do project managers say about agile projects? In a follow-up to our recently published “Reasons for Agile...
Jul 28, 20209 Reasons for Agile FailuresWhy agile initiatives fail Agile has officially been around since 2001 with the publishing of the agile manifesto. The past two decades...
Apr 21, 2020A Bubblepoint view of Agile, CMMI and other quality improvementsAt Method Buzz we've seen many companies who have tried improvement after improvement year after year. Many of these have been applied...
Mar 23, 2020A Day in an Agile Process Refactoring Project8am Breakfast Meeting We’re here with the project team and find ourselves in the local coffeeshop. Attending is the entire project team...
Feb 17, 2020What is product quality fade? And what can you do about it?We just finished conducting a short course on product reviews, inspections and walkthroughs. A very interesting question was asked about...
Jan 21, 2020How to run effective customer/supplier quality reviewsWe recently advised a client about how to run effective customer/supplier quality meetings. Our teams have been on both sides of the...
Dec 17, 2019Insight: Planning for a productive retrospective – key challengesWhat are the key challenges to using Retrospectives/Sprint/project Review to improve? The challenges are legion but broadly fall under...
Nov 19, 2019Insight: Planning for a productive retrospective - 4 steps to better learningWe've all been there before - a project that hasn't gone so well: over budget, late, not meeting everyone's expectations (project death...
Oct 29, 2019Article: Declutter your meetings and create Minimum Viable MeetingsThere’s been a plethora of home and office organizing blogs, TV programs and podcasts over the past few years. There are hundreds of...
Sep 16, 2019Article: 12 questions an agile CIO & leader should ask themselves, weeklyAs a CIO, how well do you manage your people and projects? You're in a unique position to able massive improvements - but only if you...
Aug 19, 20198 Questions an Agile Project Manager should ask themselves, constantlyAs project managers we are bombarded every day with challenges – changes in scope, difficult sponsors, distracted customers, confused...
Jul 15, 2019Insight: Running effective meetings – 70 actions to improve your performance & productivityMeetings, meetings, meetings… that’s all people seem to do these days. If you need to be convinced that things need to change, you’ve...