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Turning Women’s History Month into Women’s Future Month

As we come towards the end of Women’s History Month, I am thinking about our neighborhood team trivia night. Far from trivial. What female scientist won two Nobel prizes in different disciplines? Our trivia team, worked from “that lady who studied radioactivity” to the correct answer, Marie Curie. The team members have diverse backgrounds, hailingContinue reading “Turning Women’s History Month into Women’s Future Month”

Build your personal brand while building your community.

Branding and community An article in Wired Magazine about branding and community made me think about personal branding. Does the idea of “personal branding” make you shudder? Think of it as being a trusted advisor to others in your field. Rule 1. Take part in your community. Trin Basra, executive creative director at Sparks, “WhenContinue reading “Build your personal brand while building your community.”

Management looks different in an AI world.

From this Economist article, we can see trends 📉 in technology *management* roles. No need for managers 🤖, but we very much need *leaders*. Build your *change leadership* 💡 skills. We’ve been working on AI use cases for the last 18 months that drive customer engagement, increase operational efficiency and allow us to provide scalableContinue reading “Management looks different in an AI world.”

Opportunities and Challenges in Adopting an Enterprise Agile Framework

Frameworks give us a recipe to follow while allowing customization to suit our needs. In my third implementation of a large-scale change from more traditional project management to more agile product and service delivery, I see while each experience has been different – the reasons for change and the frameworks used – the transformations facedContinue reading “Opportunities and Challenges in Adopting an Enterprise Agile Framework”

Thanks Henry

You don’t have to be a visual learner to be a fan of the Gantt chart. It visually shows to your stakeholders how your project has tasks assigned to responsible people with due dates. From executives to individual contributors, your stakeholders can see the task durations and dependencies. They can point out the milestones onContinue reading “Thanks Henry”

What’s in your bizarch toolbox?

Business architects analyze their company’s business goals and strategic initiatives, and then develop the capability models needed to operate the organization. TOGAF details the inputs, activities, outputs and application of business architecture. My favorite work products are the capability maps, value stream maps, and organizational accountability frameworks. My top three tools in my business architectureContinue reading “What’s in your bizarch toolbox?”

Address the friction in your work

Resistance to change is a natural phenomenon — it’s friction! When we want to make changes, we tend to resist that change and slip back to our old ways. Consider starting a diet or kicking off a project or sliding a book across a table — we want to return to our original state. HowContinue reading “Address the friction in your work”

Follow the sun in global operations

Managing infrastructure in a global business with 24x7x365 availability is not just about watching SLA performance. Continuously improve systems, follow the sun in your support models, and leverage industry frameworks to keep your systems flying. And let’s not forget about good design, architecture and testing…

Our Book Launch

We are excited to announce the launch of our new book, Management Is Not Rocket Science… It’s Just Physics. We help new technology managers lead their teams through change and drive innovation adoption in their organizations by applying what they learned in physics class to management scenarios. Friction? Forces? Free body diagrams? These concepts applyContinue reading “Our Book Launch”

Change Leadership

Call to Action for CIOs: Develop change leadership skills with your early career managers Our current technology leaders have technical degrees where very little time was spent teaching the soft skills of managing people. Our current situation leans on these managers to lead change. As technology leaders, we are in the best position to paveContinue reading “Change Leadership”