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How to raise your company from failure to success
If your company is in dire straights and you’re headed to oblivion, below are some of the basic things we can do to extend our competitive company life – our ‘runway’ as it’s often called. The most important activities are … Continue reading
When to resign and find a better company
Why resign? It depends on what matters to you. Many people join the company but leave their boss. How much does your manager matter? There are loads of books, presentations, articles, websites and standards on building and maintaining a continually … Continue reading
Improve Your Business With A Quality Management System Review
Once in a while it’s good to review your quality/business management system (structure, processes, requirements, etc) – we’ll focus on processes for the moment. The relevance of processes is critical. They must be useful to your staff, customers, partners and … Continue reading
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A Day in Refactoring Agile Project Process Part 2
12.30 Lunch We have a great lunch at Tokio’s in Melbourne CBD. The team highly recommended it as fantastic for the sukiyaki-don and other specialties. Sounded good and they were right – it was a great experience. We have a … Continue reading
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Project Reviews and Alignment With Strategy
How often do we see project healthchecks, appraisals, assessments, audits, reviews, and company breathalyzers where the results are praised by management and then shelved. Perhaps even with the best of intentions: Management didn’t agree with the findings They didn’t have … Continue reading
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The shield of process improvement
One of the more precarious traits of organisations with well-established quality systems (procedures, work instructions etc) is that of using process as a shield. The quality system is in effect being used against itself. When asked why they perform a … Continue reading
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A Software Process Improvement Portfolio
Subsequent to my previous post, I thought we could clarify some issues using a Software Process Improvement Portfolio approach. As noted earlier many methods appear to extol the same virtues and build up a strawman of other methods to differentiate … Continue reading
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A Bubblepoint view of Agile, CMMI and other quality improvements
At Zenkara we’ve seen many companies who have tried improvement after improvement year after year. Many of these have been applied in parallel e.g. CMMI and ISO9001, CMMI and 6 Sigma, Lean and EFQM and GQM. Yes after a time … Continue reading
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