Lessons Learned

Customer Focus

Posted by Ian Burgess on May 1, 2010 at 7:13 am

  This week we meet with a Andy and Simon from CWL systems, on the outside they seem a very focused IT consulting and implementation shop, what completely changed my view of this was the single slide displayed on a screen in their office:  Customers are not dependent on us – We are dependent on [...]

Using Rewards to Motivate Staff

Posted by Ian Burgess on December 28, 2009 at 9:14 pm

Over the last few months I have been dealing with issues on how to motivate staff and found this really interesting talk from TED by Dan Pink (who happens to be Al Gore’s speech writer). He touches on practices such as Result only Work Environments definitely food for thought. Starting with a fact that social [...]

The Vendor Client Relationship

Posted by Ian Burgess on August 1, 2009 at 12:08 am

Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great!

Posted by Ian Burgess on July 9, 2009 at 3:22 pm
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The importance of the retrospective cannot be underestimated it in many cases is the worst performed element of the agile practices. I am currently researching different project managers and facilitators retrospective practices. I am currently documenting my thoughts on this but I during my research I found this video from Google Tec Talks.

Agile Retrospective – Lessons Learned

Posted by Ian Burgess on June 1, 2009 at 1:33 pm
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The one phase that is most often neglected in agile development is the retrospective, fulfilling the same role as lessons learned in other methodologies such as Prince2. Only paying lip service to the retrospective will have noticeable effect on the delivery of the project it is in this phase that misunderstandings are outlined and process that [...]