Insight: Make Meetings Work - Two Year Survey
Meetings seem to cause difficulties for organizations everywhere. With video, phone and hybrid work becoming the norm, it’s critical that...
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- Aug 17, 2021
Article: Preparing for a Project Sponsor Meeting
Sponsors 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, 2021
Get your office reopening off to a flying start: A return to COVID-Normal
As 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, 2020
Insight: 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, 2020
Insight: A project manager view of agile project risks and difficulties
What difficulties and risks do project managers say about agile projects? In a follow-up to our recently published “Reasons for Agile...
- Jul 28, 2020
9 Reasons for Agile Failures
Why agile initiatives fail Agile has officially been around since 2001 with the publishing of the agile manifesto. The past two decades...
- Apr 21, 2020
A Bubblepoint view of Agile, CMMI and other quality improvements
At Method Buzz we've seen many companies who have tried improvement after improvement year after year. Many of these have been applied...
- Mar 23, 2020
A Day in an Agile Process Refactoring Project
8am Breakfast Meeting We’re here with the project team and find ourselves in the local coffeeshop. Attending is the entire project team...
- Feb 17, 2020
What 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, 2020
How to run effective customer/supplier quality reviews
We recently advised a client about how to run effective customer/supplier quality meetings. Our teams have been on both sides of the...
- Dec 17, 2019
Insight: Planning for a productive retrospective – key challenges
What are the key challenges to using Retrospectives/Sprint/project Review to improve? The challenges are legion but broadly fall under...
- Nov 19, 2019
Insight: Planning for a productive retrospective - 4 steps to better learning
We'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, 2019
Article: Declutter your meetings and create Minimum Viable Meetings
There’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, 2019
Article: 12 questions an agile CIO & leader should ask themselves, weekly
As 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, 2019
8 Questions an Agile Project Manager should ask themselves, constantly
As project managers we are bombarded every day with challenges – changes in scope, difficult sponsors, distracted customers, confused...
- Jul 15, 2019
Insight: Running effective meetings – 70 actions to improve your performance & productivity
Meetings, meetings, meetings… that’s all people seem to do these days. If you need to be convinced that things need to change, you’ve...