Services
Sometimes personal service is the best option
If you need confidential advice and perspective to help you:
- Negotiate agreement between and among adversaries, colleagues and superiors
- Manage application development teams – technical and business stakeholders
- Extricate yourself from a toxic environment
- Get an informed second opinion
- Develop a solution to a unique business process or infotech problem
think about using my Personal Advisory service. There’s video of an actual session to give you a feel for what the service is like. Clients that have taken advantage of the 1-on-1 conversations have been pleasantly surprised at the outcome.
I also offer consultation on initiative management and adaptive leadership methods at the enterprise level. Some of the outcomes from this work are:
- Actionable road maps and plans synthesized from multiple sources
- Facilitated vision, strategy and consensus/buy-in sessions
- Current and future state process analysis and definition
If you’ve got questions about whether or not I can help in your unique situation, please reach out. I don’t take on clients I can’t help which is why my services are guaranteed.
How can I help?
Events
Your time is valuable and in short supply.
The events you’ll find here are designed to respect that fact.
If you don't know how the evolution of the brain affects your behavior and others,[...]
Writing and Research
Field proven Ideas and concepts.
When meetings are non-productive because a participant's behavior is perceived as overbearing, careful consideration should be given to a number of options.
Working remotely is here to stay. How difficult it is to manage is up to you.
When seeking the "best" may not be the best thing.
Regardless of what method you are using, estimation is always a challenging activity. And the "story point" technique recommended for Scrum is a text-book case of good intentions gone bad.
It is intuitively obvious: one of the key factors for success is putting the proper person in charge. Sounds simple enough to do; it’s not. Learn 4 common mistakes.
Regardless of your role in an initiative, knowing if it is headed for trouble can be an advantage. Contact me for a rapid and accurate assessment.
Any management method has inherent pitfalls that can readily derail even the simplest project. In Scrum, dependencies outside the team are especially problematic.
A method and its benefits are soon parted if fundamental drivers are not understood. Scrum's driver is the high performing team.
Trying to fix a troubled initiative can be a career killer if you get this step wrong.
We all joke "Ready-Fire-Aim" is how some initiatives get implemented. The ugly fact is "Fire-Aim-Ready" is sometimes closer to reality.
I'm generally not big on military-style command-and-control organizational structures. But I am a fan of ancient Chinese war strategies.
It's hard to argue against the concept of a critical path. But actually using it effectively is another story.
"Signal" is good; "noise" is bad. And it's easy to increase one and decrease the other.
If you are suffering the effects of a non-performing resource, carefully share this piece with the appropriate person who needs to take action.
Recordings
Any day now, this is the place you’ll find original video and podcast productions about current topics you need to learn about.
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Impressions
What people publicly say about working with you provides insight into who you are.
Former Clients
Did I mention I’ve delivered over $1B in value by managing initiatives for quite a few companies, big and small?
Many of them you’ll recognize (and maybe work for).
About
Looking for more detail about my background?
Some tidbits about my personal life, perhaps?
