SCRUM For Business Not Just Development

August 7, 2009 – 8:00 am | by Karl Rohde
Where does SCRUM fit into business? Is it just in development? I don’t think so. I am at the tail end of a project with a company that can’t quite work out if it is a bloated corporate with steady revenues, or a start-up bootstrapping and waging a guerrilla war against larger, cash rich [...]

Tags: bootstrapping, management systems, Project Management, SCRUM, start-up

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Crisis: Project Turnaround Part 1

June 4, 2009 – 7:35 am | by Karl Rohde
Your project is overdue, there have been cost overruns, and the final destination is still out of reach.  In this series of posts I will be covering the process of turning a crisis project around. This probably sounds all too familiar to many project managers, development managers, business owners, and even company board members. It’s so [...]

Tags: Failed Projects, IT consultancy, It Project, Management, Project Management

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Email Management

April 30, 2009 – 9:00 am | by Karl Rohde
I get a lot of emails. Loads and loads of them. But I seldom misplace or fail to action an email. And at the end of each day my inbox is usually empty. Other people I have worked with over the years have often misplaced important emails, or overlooked responding/actioning emails. I came up [...]

Tags: Email Backlog, Email Management, Email Productivity

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