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Lean IT
The Lean Starter Guide: For Better Business and Better Projects
By focusing business operations on your customer and stripping away activities which don’t add value, Lean allows you to carefully…
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Lean IT
Lean Efforts Serve Up Big Benefits for IT Leaders
Lean has long since stopped being a process just for use at Toyota. Organizations are now getting lean in various…
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Delivering Business Value
Managing Business Logic in Applications
In one of the Terminator movies, the main character realizes he can’t destroy the central computer because the…
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Lean IT
A Lean Approach to Portfolio Management
Portfolio management is often seen as a high level effort. Projects can be big enough, so creating a management system…
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Who is assigned to your strategic projects?
Ideally, your best people should be assigned to strategic projects. They know your business, they have a proven track record,…
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Lean IT
Does the cost of your Applications represent an investment or waste?
Most people simply assume that applications are beneficial or we wouldn’t have them. As a result, they conclude that applications…
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Lean IT
Use Kanban and Lean Principles to Increase Team Throughput 5 Fold
Going from 1 Platform to 5 In this article originally featured in PM World Journal, Ruby Tomar shares her story…
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Delivering Business Value
Application Modernization – What is the justification?
From the business perspective, there is no need for Application Modernization. If they are content with the functionality they currently…
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Are you supporting obsolete Applications?
When a new application is implemented, what happens to the application that was replaced? The obvious answer should be ……
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Managing the learning curve
One of the biggest impacts to organizational effectiveness is the learning curve. Our ability to rapidly orient people and change…
