How To Convince An Organization To Go Agile?
How do you convince an organization to use Scrum or another agile practice and really adopt it? I asked this question to three Project Managers experienced with agile practices and traditional approaches.
Tribal Leadership: Build A Great Organization Leveraging Natural Groups
You’ll love this episode about leadership. In Episode 19 of The Project Shrink Podcast I am talking to Dave Logan about Tribal Leadership. Dave is a best-selling author, an expert in cultural transformation in the workplace, a senior partner at CultureSync and on the faculty of the Marshall School of Business. He co-authored the book …
Managing The Gray Areas With Jerry Manas
In this episode of “The Project Shrink” I am talking to Jerry Manas. Jerry is an organizational architect and author of two books: “Napoleon on Project Management” and “Managing The Gray Areas”. We are talking about the “gray areas”. Managing projects is all about finding balances, finding the right touch for the right occasion. Jerry …
Lessons From The Pond For The Project Workforce
This is a posting in The Fish Pond Metaphor series by Ali Anani and Bas de Baar As projects start and end within organizations the demand for employees fluctuates. It seems that in certain times the workforce is just too small to handle all tasks, and in slow times many employees are doing nothing. With …
Stratification: Organizational Structures In A Pond
by Ali Anani and Bas de Baar In this posting we will introduce a view on organizational structures using The Fish Pond. It provides an alternative perspective in answering the question whether we should have flat organizations, pyramidal organizations or something in between. We will use the process of pond stratification as illustration.