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PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN! What is the curtain? The enterprise is the curtain. In concurrent posts, SocialText’s Michael Idinopulos discusses killing pilot projects and the true nature of Enterprise 2.0. He explains: Enterprise social software isn’t one application. It’s a range of collaborative modes that includes blogs, wikis, micromessaging, personal...
read moreIntegration is Enterprise 2.0. This week my friend and colleague Dion Hinchcliffe posted an article on ZD Net describing 14 Reasons Why Enterprise 2.0 Projects Fail. In it he paints a picture of valiant workers surreptitiously cyber-skulking on dank distributed web sites, efficiently working and making money for their companies – all the while keeping an eye out for dagger-wielding IT staff...
read moreWhen I began to write a succession of posts on personal kanban back in July, I thought a few people might benefit from the idea. I never expected that the series would attract tens of thousands of viewers to my blog, Evolving Web. Less than two months later, there is a growing and enthusiastic personal kanban community which has been posting photos, discussing innovations, and advancing the...
read moreIn the previous post, we discussed why you would want to measure your performance in Personal Kanban. Today I’ll begin with the most powerful – but perhaps most intimidating – technique. In upcoming posts we’ll look as some less intense methods, so don’t let this post scare you. In kanban for software design, a “cumulative flow diagram” is used to track...
read moreOne cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life. - Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature Okay, so we’ve gone through several ways kanban can look, be used, and operate. We’ve discussed ways to prioritize work. But we have yet to address how to measure (gulp) performance. But what exactly is “performance,” and why...
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