At least once a month, the tech media publishes another op-ed complaining that IT is too slow and cumbersome, and that we must radically alter our approach to produce faster and more responsive service development and delivery. Complaints about IT’s speed aren’t particularly new, but one thing is new—there appears to be a solution to […]
A few weeks ago I tried out some new To-Do list apps to see if any of them worked better than my old standby ToodleDo. The result? My productivity decreased. Within minutes of copying my To-Do list into each of these apps, I started to receive a half dozen notifications from a half dozens apps, […]
Today is December 10th. (Bear that in mind as you read the next sentence.) Yesterday, I observed a client conducting a global planning project all of a sudden publish a completion deadline of December 27th. To be fair, the project does need to kick off early in Q1-2014 but two days after Christmas? Seriously? Would […]
In last week’s countdown piece I noted how the holidays take a big bite out of the remaining productive time in the year. Now here we are. We have a holiday two days away and everything’s slowed down. You are having a hard time wrangling the support and feedback you need to get anything done. […]
Here we are in the second week of November, which leaves about six weeks to wrap up our commitments, right? Wrong. Yes, I know what the calendar says, but just counting lines on the calendar won’t take into account the naturally occurring breaks (make that bites) that are going to be taken out by the […]
