Project Collaboration Overview & 7 Great Books : Siemens Talk

Posted on 12. Mar, 2013 by ger in Agile, Events, Guides, Leadership, New Ways to Work, blog

Last night in Dublin I spoke to a group leaders from Siemens at an event coordinated by WDHB.

The key points of my talk were:

  • Existing tools still don’t solve the problems of communication within large organizations
  • Businesses need a flexible system that can scale from gigantic to many small-informal projects
  • Culture is even more important than tools. Agile ways of working & leading with short iterations and empowered teams are crucial.

I recommended a number of books that explore the last point:

  • Radical Management: Stephen Denning
  • Succeeding with Agile: Mike Cohn
  • The Future of Management: Gary Hamel
  • Management 3.0: Jurgen Appelo
  • Getting Things Done: David Allen
  • The Way We’re Working isn’t Working: Tony Schwartz
  • What Were They Thinking?: Jeffrey Pfeffer

Other speakers at the event were Marie Wallace of IBM and Polly Sumner of Salesforce. Polly recommended a really interesting followup action at end of her talk. She suggested everyone in the room try to buy or get customer support for their own product.

By coincidence I read the following quote in the Siemens “Pictures of the Future” magazine this morning.

    “Modern information and communication media promote a short attention span and a superficial understanding of the world.” — David Gelernter.

By another coincidence I read this in the Chess Media newsletter this morning.

    “Communication barriers cost large companies an average of $26,000 per employee per year due to productivity losses.” — Jacob Morgan

Learn more

Try Goshido, our collaboration & project management platform. Goshido is so flexible it can be used for project collaboration in any kind of business: product development, energy, healthcare & consulting.

You can download my slides.

Slides from Agile Tour 2011 – Principles of Scrum

Posted on 07. Nov, 2011 by ger in Events, New Ways to Work

A couple of weeks ago I spoke at AgileTour Dublin 2011. AgileTour aims to communicate the benefits of Agile for businesses and create leaders in Agile in all regions of the world.

I spoke about getting started and improving your organization using Scrum. You can get my slides from our website.

Other speakers included Colm O’hEocha from AgileInnovation, Fran O’Hara from Inspire Quality Services, Robert McGarry from Ignition Team, Richard Bowden from Cloud Consulting, and Alan Spencer from D&B. You’ll find details of the other talks on the Agile Tour website. Alan was speaking at the same time as me, so I missed his talk. From his slides it looks like he was discussing the benefits of Agile for business in general, a subject that’s close to our hearts too.

Thank you for reading

We hope you found something useful. Please try Goshido, our collaboration & project management platform. Goshido applies new principles for how work can be organized; the perfect blend of Agile, Lean, Productivity and Attention Management.

JiveWorld Recap: Social Project Management is Here to Stay

Posted on 14. Oct, 2011 by tom in Events, New Ways to Work

At JiveWorld 2011 we learned some key insights into how the world of work is being transformed by technology. We also demonstrated the integrated Goshido Jive application which combines the best of both products. Among the audience I could sense a tangible belief that we are at the cusp of one of the most important technology & management transitions ever seen. The companies who make this transition will be more agile and successful than the ones who don’t.

Jim Worth has put together a wiki summarizing many aspects of JiveWorld. Jive will be making videos & presentations available in the near future. In this post we’ll focus on the key takeaways from the Goshido point of view:

  • The people are the platform:

    This was the message of Wednesday’s keynote, and we couldn’t agree more. Even in the most regimented businesses, people are still THE competitive differentiator. Jive really is about engagement, sharing and discovery. Goshido is about action. One plus one, in this case, can lead to a very significant sum.

  • Jive’s customers are committed:

    Everyone we spoke with was committed to improving the way work gets done in their businesses. This might mean changing process, or culture.

  • It’s not either/or:

    We were wondering if companies were using Jive for internal or external social business processes. It turns out that there were a wide mix of use cases, befitting the mix of industries and functional groups represented. Sometimes internal collaboration is the goal, sometimes customer facing opportunities are being addressed. In some cases companies are doing both. For example, Patrick Darling of Intel described how they built Intel Newsroom, a super-successful community-based news hub. Newsroom makes Intel’s PR faster to deliver, more social and easier to search.

  • Adoption is still a challenge:

    For both project management and social business solutions, the key is adoption. The not-so-good news is that there is still resistance to change. The really good news is that there is plenty of momentum and lots of room for improvement.

  • The new system of record:

    The alphabet soup of traditional business software extends from ERP to CRM. Jive Software is more people centric. Jive has re-imagined business communication from the ground-up to help you unlock business value in the social capital of your enterprise. Jive can become the new “system of record”, business software that’s as easy to use as consumer web applications. We believe Goshido can extend Jive to become the “system of action” for your organization.

  • ROI is top of mind:

    Many Jive customers reported significant returns on their investment in social business technology. This is a transition that has quantifiable benefits. For example, Dianne Kibbey spoke about how Premier Farnell created a thriving community for electronic design engineers.

  • Innovations and customer centric-engineering:

    In the Thursday keynote, Jive demonstrated some of the coming innovations in the platform. In a nice touch, the product development team stood up and gave a round of applause to the many customers in the room. It turns out the whole team had flown in the night before and spent the following day talking to customers at presentations, lunch and demos.

Thank you for reading

We hope you found something useful in this post. Please try our product Goshido, the project collaboration & management solution designed for the people who do the work. Teams all over the world are using Goshido to get work done. When everyone on your team is focused on the things that matter, work flows and you can accomplish the extraordinary.

Goshido + Jive: Making Project Management Social

Posted on 05. Oct, 2011 by tom in Events, New Ways to Work, Product, blog

There’s a revolution happening in the way businesses are being organized. Traditional command-and-control hierarchies are evolving into an emergent-and-adaptive network of people working across organizational boundaries. The best performing organizations have universal accountability. Goshido helps organizations be more agile and naturally accountable.

This week we’re at JiveWorld where we’re showing our latest integration, which connects Goshido with the Jive Software platform. This integrated offering will soon be available in the Jive Apps Market, and we’re convinced that it will help advance our goal of transforming how knowledge workers engage and collaborate.

A great idea in a Jive discussion could become a complex project for an entire team, executed in Goshido. Knowledge work projects don’t always follow pre-programmed roadmaps, but most project management solutions are designed as if they do. With Goshido, anyone can connect actions together into projects that can evolve and grow.

Goshido is project management for people who are doing the work. Unlike traditional project management solutions, Goshido scales to handle complex projects while remaining easy to use. Most project management solutions focus on planning. Goshido helps you focus on execution.

The nature of work has changed. Goshido helps you keep pace with that change. Our software helps teams to execute projects – to keep all the moving parts moving. Hundreds of teams all over the world are using Goshido to get work done. When everyone on your team is focused on the things that matter, work flows and you can accomplish the extraordinary.

Thank you for reading

We hope you found something useful. Please try Goshido, our collaboration & project management platform. Goshido can help you and your teams to take action in the absence of orders and communicate with clarity.

Speaking on Cloud Software Development – ICS / University of Limerick

Posted on 16. May, 2011 by ger in Events

Do you want to learn more about developing software for the cloud? Are you going to be somewhere near Limerick (Ireland) on Thursday 19-May-2011? If so, come along to the event organized by the Irish Computer Society (ICS) in the University of Limerick (6-8pm).

Richie Bowden of Cloud Consulting will be speaking about all of the options out there for cloud software development. I’ve seen Richie speak before and this is a great opportunity to catch him in Limerick. Besides consulting on all things cloud, Richie is also a ScrumMaster and PMI certified project manager.

I will be speaking about our experiences developing Goshido using Ruby-on-Rails on Amazon web-services.

Next steps:

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Speaking about Agile at PMI Event in Dublin

Posted on 28. Mar, 2011 by ger in Events

If you want to learn more about Agile & Scrum and you’re in Dublin on the 29th of March, I am one of the speakers at an event organized by the Ireland Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI).

The event is billed as “Agile Scrum – Everything you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask”. It promises to be a lively session.

Colm Ó hEocha will introduce Agile and the benefits. Ger Hartnett will be talking about what Scrum is and how it works with plenty of examples from Intel and Goshido. Richard Bowden will discussing some practical lessons learned from the use of Scrum on a number of different projects.

When: 2pm to 6pm on Tuesday 29 March 2011.
Where: Hilton Hotel, Charlemont Place, Dublin, IRELAND.

The event is free but you should register in advance on the PMI website.

Seminar in Edinburgh SCOTLAND cancelled due to weather

Posted on 29. Nov, 2010 by ger in Events

Due to severe weather conditions we’ve cancelled the event scheduled for 30-Nov in Edinburgh Scotland.

Seminar – Lean & Agile for Project Success, in Edinburgh, SCOTLAND

Posted on 15. Nov, 2010 by donncha in Events

UPDATE: Due to severe weather conditions in Edinburgh, we’ve cancelled this event.

Goshido is delighted to announce details of our upcoming evening event which takes place in Edinburgh, Scotland.

WHEN:

Tuesday, 30th November 2010

    6.00 PM – Registration – Tea/Coffee & Light Refreshments
    6.30 PM – Workshop for one hour

WHERE:

COST:

There is no charge for attending, but numbers are limited, and attendance will be restricted to those who have pre-registered.

TO REGISTER:

Please send email to:  donncha.hughes@goshido.com

OVERVIEW:

This event will address a number of modern approaches for managing projects and team performance, including:

  • Change Management
  • Agile Project Management
  • Lean Techniques
  • Getting Things Done
  • Goshido – software, training & consultancy support that will help you introduce new ways of working in your organisation

NETWORKING:

This event will be of interest to senior managers and project leads in knowledge-based organisations.

SPEAKERS:

Kevin McPhillips of SentiaPlus will address successful business change. Kevin has been delivering and consulting on change projects for over 20 years, initially with PwC, and subsequently in both the public and private sector.  His company, SentiaPlus Ltd also provides coaching in successful change for businesses, and training on related areas.  He is also author of several published articles on business change and project delivery.

Gerard Hartnett of Goshido will introduce you to Lean, Agile & GTD Principles. He will also demonstrate Goshido – cloud software that helps you apply these principles to run successful projects. Ger spent 8 years at Intel as Architect and Project Manager on global teams which delivered three processors with revenues in excess of $1bn. Ger worked for Tellabs, Digital and Motorola, before Basis Communications, which was acquired by Intel in 2000.

Slides from the Cork seminar Oct 2010

Posted on 28. Oct, 2010 by ger in Events

You can view the slides from our recent seminar in Cork, Ireland.

Here are some followup ideas:

Free seminar – Running Projects using Lean, Agile & GTD, 27 Oct in Cork, IRELAND

Posted on 15. Oct, 2010 by donncha in Events

Goshido is delighted to announce details of our next Project Management Breakfast Briefing which takes place in Cork, Ireland.

WHEN:

    Wednesday, 27th October
    07.30 – 8.00am – Continental Breakfast
    08.00 – 9.00am – Workshop

WHERE:

COST:

There’s no charge to attend but advance registration is appreciated.

TO REGISTER:

Please send email to:  donncha.hughes@goshido.com

OVERVIEW:

This breakfast seminar will address a number of modern approaches for managing projects and team performance, to include:

  • Agile Project Management
  • Lean Techniques
  • Getting Things Done
  • Goshido – software, training & consultancy support that will help you introduce new ways of working in your organisation

NETWORKING:

This event will be of interest to senior managers and project leads in knowledge-based organisations.

SPEAKERS:

Brad Allen of Simply Organised will address how you can improve your skill in organising and managing your time and commitments. Brad is a talented organiser, analyst and project manager, whose experience spans over 16 years and reaches into organisational change, business optimisation and emerging technology adoption. The focus of Simply Organised is to help high performing individuals, teams and organisations get that extra edge through more effective adoption of process and technology.

Gerard Hartnett of Goshido will introduce you to Lean & Agile Project Management Principles. He will also demonstrate Goshido – cloud software that helps you apply these principles to run successful projects. Ger spent 8 years at Intel as Architect and Project Manager on global teams which delivered three processors with revenues in excess of $1bn. Ger worked for Tellabs, Digital and Motorola, before Basis Communications, which was acquired by Intel in 2000.


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