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Thoughts on business architecture, technology strategy, project delivery, and helping organizations move difficult initiatives forward.
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”— Peter Drucker I’ve spent most of my career working with technology. Software development, systems architecture, business applications,…
If you’ve ever finished a day exhausted only to wonder what you actually accomplished, you’ve probably been experiencing the “tyranny of the urgent.” This is a phrase first…
One of the most important parts of project management happens before a project exists. Before there is a project plan, a timeline, a budget, a backlog, or a…
One of the most difficult decisions in technology is deciding what not to build. That may seem counterintuitive. After all, technology teams are generally measured by what they…
Most organizations don’t chase everything because they are careless. They usually do it because the ideas sound reasonable. They may even be reasonably, but that doesn’t mean they’re…
I love whiteboards. No digital tool has ever been able to replace them, in my opinion. There’s something about that glossy canvas, the smell of those chisel-cut markers,…
One of the easiest mistakes an organization can make is assuming that once strategy has been defined, execution will naturally follow. It rarely does. Most organizations don’t struggle…
For the grammar police out there, I’m well aware that grammatically speaking, strategy is a noun. But organizationally speaking, I think it’s much more useful to treat it…
An organization can have outstanding values, an inspiring vision, and a mission that people genuinely believe in. But that still doesn’t tell anyone what to do on Monday…
If you’ve ever found yourself saying, “I thought this was our top priority last week,” you’re not alone. It’s one of the most common frustrations I hear from…