I just got around to watching my colleague, Ross Pettit, present on Restructuring IT. The presentation lasts about 30 mins and is worth a watch.
Ross has an interesting history as he has worked as a COO, CIO and CTO prior to becoming a consultant. In my opinion he’s one of the few people in the […]

I strongly recommend starting any initiative to introduce new practices to an organisation with a readiness assessment. I wrote a previous post on common patterns that I come across when organisations decide to introduce Agile and Lean techniques. Many of the barriers to success can be identified and prevented with a little foresight resulting from […]

Most organisations that I come across that introduce Agile techniques focus on a set of tools and practices that are applied at a working level only - test driven development, continuous integration, stand-ups, user stories etc. Even the best organisations that I get to work with only focus on the next level up and start […]

I’m going to take a break from looking at Lean process principles and talk about a really practical application I’ve found of one of the tools used by Toyota. Let’s apply the 5S to IT strategy and in particular a strategic view of application portfolio management.
The 5S
The 5S are five terms beginning with ‘S’ that […]