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How Will Your Company Look In a Bikini?

May 8, 2013 • Management Practice • • Comments (0)

What’s the latest buzzword?  Lean!  Not as in “lean in”, Sheryl Sandberg’s popular call to personal affirmative action, but as in “Lean Startup“, the extension of Agile from software development to business creation.  This began as a way for a startup business to put a product out the door fast by minimizing all of the number-crunching and...

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The Amplification of Ebenezer

April 26, 2013 • Management Practice • • Comments (0)

The Ghost of Christmas Past The first night the ghost visited me, I was swept back to the nineties.  We peered through a window in my office in Kanata, twenty minutes from my home in Ottawa.  When I recovered from the surprise (of having a window in my...

The Sky Is Blue, Salesmen Lie and Projects Fail

April 16, 2013 • Management Practice • • Comments (0)

We keep hearing about the numbers of IT projects that fail.  As long as I’ve been an IT manager, even before I left the military nearly 20 years ago, I’ve heard shocking statistics about project failure rates.  Gartner believes they can tell us why,...

SDLC Is Not the End

April 8, 2013 • Management Practice • • Comments (0)

Many years ago I was privileged to represent my country at commemorative ceremonies in Egypt for the 50th anniversary of the battle of El Alamein.  Churchill famously said of the outcome of that battle “Now this is not the end. It is not even the...

Two Bears

February 25, 2013 • Management Practice • • Comments (0)

There’s sometimes a dysfunctional relationship between IT and the business.  You know what I mean by the business: everything that’s not IT.  Some people will say it’s just the profit centers, but IT supports all business units, profit and cost...

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