Several discussions on LinkedIn recently have prompted me to think once again about how we place our projects and organizations at risk – sometimes severe risk – by relying on what amounts to “magic words and enchanted beans”.  And by that, I mean the tendency to either talk about buzzword tactics or strategies or throw tools at problems and believe we have actually implemented them.  Not only does this ignore the hard work of applying something we’ve never done before, it ends up as a fool’s errand and could cost us dearly in the end.  Give you some examples you say?  Certainly!  I’m glad you asked … Continue reading →