by James Wright | Jan 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last year, someone introduced me to the Product Operating Model. After listening, I smiled and said, “Where I come from, we just call that Business.” If you haven’t heard of the Product Operating Model (POM), I’ll explain. It claims to be the ultimate framework for...
by James Wright | Dec 16, 2024 | Agile Principles
The acronym PMO stands for Project Management Office. POM means Product Operating Model. In this context, POS isn’t Point Of Sale but a more common term. Since I don’t use profanity, let’s say that POS is a Piece Of odorous waste. As a contrarian Agile...
by James Wright | Nov 8, 2024 | Agile in Real Life, Scrum guidelines, Uncategorized
When I first took an Agile class many years ago, I was taught that the optimal team size was 7, plus or minus 2 — so anywhere between 5 and 9 members. Fast forward a few years, and the Scrum Guide adjusted this to: “the optimal team size is between 3 to 9 people.” The...
by James Wright | Jan 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Agile principles provide flexibility for business...
by James Wright | Aug 30, 2015 | Agile in Marketing, Agile in Real Life, Agile in Strategy, Agile Principles
If you ask a software developer, “What’s the most important thing in Scrum?” He will probably say without too much hesitation something like, “Regular delivery of working code.” That working code is delivered in a ‘ceremony’ called the Sprint Review. Each Sprint (a...
by James Wright | Sep 5, 2014 | Agile in Strategy
I first became acquainted the Matsushita (best pronounced Măt-sush-ta) companies back in 1996 when I negotiated a technology license with Matsushita Communications. Most people in America know these Japanese companies by the brand name, Panasonic. I didn’t know much...
by James Wright | Aug 15, 2014 | Agile in Logistics
The scrum people got a lot of things right. This methodology reinforces Agile principles to make teams more efficient (doing more in the same amount of time) and effective (doing more of the right things). The time-box implementation is very unnatural, but amazingly...
by James Wright | Jul 15, 2014 | Agile in Strategy
Over the first third of my career, I had a perfect record of great success in hiring new employees. I figured that either I was great at it or it was easy. The following third brought me mixture of outcomes. I sat back to review where I had done well and poorly in an...
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