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I sometimes get the feeling that people do not always fully appreciate what the stakeholder view actually is, and how important it is to the success of a project, and how it forms the basis of an engagement plan. Lets discuss.
I Wanted to share how I approach motivation modelling, as there are many approaches, and I often see important things missing in this area. . Continue reading →
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I Wanted to share how I approach motivation modelling, as there are many approaches, and I often see important things missing in this area. . Continue reading →
I Wanted to share how I approach motivation modelling, as there are many approaches, and I often see important things missing in this area. .
Technology Implementations: Too Important to Fail Regardless of an enterprise’s size and industry, technology touches every aspect of a business’s operations now more than ever. Successful technology implementations have always been important but in today’s economic landscape, technology implementations NEED to be successful as they can make or break a business. Here are some horrific […]
A new month brings a new appearance on Tom Cagley’s Software Process and Measurement (SPaMCast) podcast. This week’s episode, number 442, features Tom’s excellent essay on capability teams (highly recommended!), followed by a Form Follows Function installment based on my post “Systems of Social Systems and the Software Systems They Create”. Kim Pries bats cleanup […]
I’ve mentioned before that the idea of looking at organizations as systems is one that I’ve been focusing on for quite a while now. From a top-down perspective, this makes sense – an organization is a system that works better when it’s component parts (both machine and human) intentionally work together. It also works from […]
Greger Wikstrand‘s tweet from earlier this week packed a wealth of inspiration into one image: The second statement particularly resonated with me: “The present is built on the past.” How often do we, or those around us, long for a chance to do things “from scratch”. The idea being, without the constraints of “legacy” code, […]
There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza, There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, a hole. – children’s song, Bergliederbüchlein (c 1700) In my prior article, I introduced the concept of a scope bucket to explain the concept of project scope to your stakeholders. In this article, I continue the theme with some […]
An architect relies on a clear understanding of scope. In prior articles we have discussed the business context diagram, a great tool for establishing solution scope. We also provided a technique for setting expectations regarding the scope of architecture activities. In this article, I intend to expand on the importance of understanding (or establishing, if […]
A Systems Flow consultant has skills that tend to fall in the triangle of technical, business and organizational excellence. One common and repetitive case of project dysfunction where this overlap brings real benefits is that of the “Operational Business Stakeholders Missing from Business Requirements.” Here’s how it usually goes: Architect is engaged to design project’s solution architecture […]
As practicing solution and enterprise architects we regularly present our work to our stakeholders for feedback. Those stakeholders range from mentors to peers to project teams to executive sponsors. In any and all of those situations, it is important to be able to accept feedback. In some cases the feedback will have been solicited by […]