Tag: lean
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“The Checklist Manifesto” is a game-changing book
What is it about? The author’s key message is that the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded any single individual’s ability to manage it consistently without error despite material advances in technology, boatloads of more training and super-specialization of functions and responsibilities. Yet, despite demonstrating that checklists produce results, there is resistance…
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An example of Slack in use
There is a lot of buzz about Slack which is as sort of instant messaging system with good channel management and lots of integrations. I wanted to learn more and I found these excellent articles Slack for a dev team http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-slack-has-changed-wpmu-dev/ Slack or Yammer (a more conventional user forum manager) https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Yammer-and-Slack It seems to me…
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ElephantPM and lean project management
My core customers are SMEs who are facing organisational challenges arising from growth. One of the challenges that I face is that many SMEs regard project managers in the same way they do dentists – a necessary expense to be incurred when the pain is too great. This makes for difficulties because project management is…
Dr James Bayley 