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#387 – AGILE EVM BASED DOD SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT WBS – JOHN AYERS

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“Department of Defense (D0D) acquisition must improve program while working within budgetary constraints. The DoD community shows an interest in utilizing Agile methodologies, but struggles to reap Agile’s benefits. They encountered challenges including the historically built-up processes that enforce heavy-weight oversight, the outdated, manufacturing focused Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) provided in DoD Handbook: Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) for defense Material Items (MIL-STD-881C), and the inability of traditional waterfall-based process to accommodate iterative development. Continue reading →

#386 – DISRUPTION IS CREATING NEW WORK WORLDS – GREG HUTCHINS

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There are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamentals of your business. Disrupt yourself before others do.
Brad Stone – Journalist & Author

Consulting firms, academics, and consultants are developing models for the Future of Work.   Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) developed a scenario called the Future of Work: A Journey to 2022.  The premise of the study is: “disruptive innovations are creating new industries and business models, and destroying old ones.”[i]  PwC outlined three distinct worlds of work: Blue, Green, and Orange. Continue reading →

#386 – YOU CAN QUANTIFY ANY RISK IN THE PLANET: FOLLOW THESE STEPS – ALEX SIDORENKO

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While I’ve written this post about compliance risks in the past, I later applied exactly the same math and logic to any non financial risk, including intellectual property, legal, environmental, ESG and most other risks you can think of. Follow this step by step guide to quantify most non financial risks or if you want to automate quantitative risk analysis use Archer Insight. Continue reading →

#386 – DISENGAGED AND STRESSFUL WORKPLACES CREATE RISK FOR ORGANIZATIONS – PATRICK OW

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Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace: 2022 Report found that only 21% of employees are engaged at work and 44% of employees experienced a lot of stress on the previous day – both findings are up 1% from 2021.

In one of the largest studies of burnout, Gallup found the biggest source was “unfair treatment at work.” That was followed by an unmanageable workload, unclear communication from managers, lack of manager support and unreasonable time pressure. Continue reading →