Meetings Don’t Need Chocolates
I got a text from a mate of mine the other day that made me laugh. It read: <BEEP>> I hate sprint planning. I wish they’d just speak English and act like grown-ups. You don’t need << BEEP >> lollies and chocolates to have a meeting! Now bear in...
Stop Making The Same Mistakes!
Twenty-five years ago, a mate of mine made a colossal mistake. As a civil engineer in his first job out of university he designed a bridge that didn’t join up. Now for all of us who were his mates, this was a great laugh. For Mark however, this wasn’t so funny. And it...
Initiating A Project For Success
So you have a valid business idea you are keen to run with. And you want to initiate a project to deliver this? You don’t want this to take an age but you need to get it right. At Luminate we work through a three step agile process to get your project up and running...
Got A Project That’s Out Of Control?
Got a project that's out of control? If the project is red, you need to do something differently. It's what you do next that counts!
Honestly, how bad is it?
Last week we looked at what was keeping you awake at night. Out of control projects with budget blow outs, scope creep, schedule over-run and a project manager that wasn’t able to provide you with the facts. You’ve been sitting in senior leadership meetings and you...
Stop Fire Fighting and Do Your Day Job
Let’s face it. How many projects have you been involved with that were planned and executed to perfection? How many have been delivered on time, on budget and with scope and requirements fully met? And how many times did you achieve all this without any conflict...
To Agile or ‘Not Too Agile’
One of the key technology trends over the last decade or three… showing our age there… has been the broadening use of ‘Agile’ software development techniques. If you didn’t know that then you’ve been living in some sort of technology free cave for quite a while. So...
If You Can’t Change The People … Change The People
All of the more notable advances in project delivery methods in the last 10 years have had a particular focus on people more than process. Not people in place of process but certainly people first. For example the first of the four principles that make up the...
