We should work as one team, without judgement. We should work hard and collaborate with the team members to meet the end goal! Sounds good? Yes, it sounds good and philosophical! However, not all members of your team are competent. The common assumption is that all...
What is the top problem in project delivery?
Project delivery is often very challenging. The top problem in project delivery is that we do not consciously try to understand the customer. We tend to follow an easier path, the 'look at me' approach. The first step is to learn about the customer and customer...
Accountability score!
How are you going on your accountability score? When things do not manifest as we expect, we quickly find others' issues, problems, and shortcomings. So rather than focusing on getting back on track, we dedicated our energy to covering ourselves - our egos,...
What is so special about Business Intelligence, Big Data and Data Science?
Business Intelligence, Big Data, and Data Science are the set of capabilities, tools, and disciplines to support the business make informed decisions. They offer abilities to measure and manage things that matter the most. But the business must still know what matters...
Ask for a workable product! Don’t forget – Less is more!
The customer Project team often gets stuck in the perfection trap. As they know more about the possibilities during the Enterprise software implementation, they ask for more stuff. The following are a few of the standard requests: Additional module – For example,...
Why are we insulting the Agile Manifesto?
The very first value of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development is – "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools". Yet, we are stuck on countless processes - Stand-ups, retrospectives, Sprint planning and Sprint reviews. Similarly, we debate tools like...
Why should you seriously consider a decentralised support model for your ERP?
When an ERP project completes, we may celebrate and jump to the next big thing. However, there is often no major thought and provisioning for ongoing ERP development. The fact is that when you complete the ERP implementation, you barely utilise roughly 60% of ERP...
Why does the Critical path matter?
In the last post, we have covered the meaning of the Critical path. We have established that the Critical path is the chain of interdependent tasks. But why does Critical Path matter? The Critical Path matters because delays on the tasks that are on the Critical path...
