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Helpful thoughts from the world of business, strategy, digital technology and marketing
Busy v Predictable
The trade-offs in planning work, reporting progress, and delegating Imagine you are the owner of a busy, successful, swanky city centre restaurant. You employ 15 staff at the restaurant, including a restaurant manager to run things day today, and your restaurant can seat around a hundred customers. The restaurant enjoys an enviable and growing reputation…
Incremental improvement beats postponed perfection
A friend of mine, who is an Agile software development consultant, tells a great anecdote … one which helps get to the heart of the difference between traditional approaches to projects, and Agile thinking. He tells a story of being pulled in to help a project that was in trouble. A large business was aiming…
The Iron Triangle
Trade-offs in classic project management Imagine that it’s Christmas, and this year it’s your responsibility to host a big family gathering… Sixteen people are coming; some you know well, others not. Some are old, some are children. There’s a lot to do. As well as doing all the cooking, you’ll also need to help keep…
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