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Beyond the Green Dashboard: Why Delivery Assurance Must Have Teeth

March 20, 2016by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

Most corporate delivery assurance is toothless by design. It arrives in the form of a checklist audit, a compliance review, or a heavily polished slide pack presented to a quarterly […]

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Best Practice, Business Execution

Failing Fast Is Cheap. Learning Late Is Ruinous: Why Agile Must Become a Kill Switch

February 14, 2016by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

Back in 2012 (post: Cancel projects that won’t deliver!), I argued that terminating a project that no longer delivers business value is not an admission of weakness; it is a […]

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Business Execution

Another Agile Oasis: How Transformation Theatre Deepens the Desert

January 23, 2016by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

When trapped between the Illusion of Execution (false signals of progress) and the Mirage of Certainty (the executive conviction that everything is fine), leaders eventually hit an undeniable reality: market […]

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Business Change, Business Execution

The Agile Oasis: How Methodological Theatre Deepens the Desert

January 10, 2016by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

When leaders find themselves stranded in the operational desert, the pressure is suffocating. The enterprise is gripped by the Illusion of Execution: a barren landscape where dashboards lie, metrics are […]

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Business Change, Business Transformation

Transformational Change Fatigue: The Cost of Perpetual Motion

December 27, 2015by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

The problem facing delivery teams today is rarely the work itself. It is change that never seems to lead anywhere. Repeatedly, we witness a familiar cycle: new systems arrive before […]

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Business Change, Business Transformation

Service excellence

October 11, 2014by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

After a long & tiring 900 km drive today its nice to finaly relax… Ended up booking a last minute hotel room (with a bit of negotiation for multiple upgrades), […]

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Stakeholder Management

The Mirage of Certainty: The Dangerous Psychology Behind False Progress

May 17, 2014by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

Last year, I wrote about the Illusion of Execution. The post created some interesting debate. See the post “The Anatomy of Corporate Self-Deception: Unpacking the Illusion of Execution” released February […]

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Business Execution

#PMFlashBlog “Project Management Around the World – England”

March 10, 2014by Neil A Walker 2 Comments

Welcome to the second round of #PMFlashBlog. The topic for this round is “Project Management Around the World” and plans to share the thoughts and insight from project management bloggers […]

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PMFlashBlog, Programme Management

Are you ready for PMFlashBlog2 – Project Management Around the World

March 10, 2014by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

We are about to experience the second round of the #PMFlashBlog. A global ’round robin’ from some of the brightest (or those socially aware) PMs around the world. I will […]

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Programme Management, Social Media

Valentine’s Day special, check out #PMChat

February 14, 2014by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

It’s Valentine’s Day. I have an opportunity this evening to be out celebrating romance. An intimate and highly indulgent evening with my loved one. Easy to picture, Valentine’s Dinner for […]

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Social Media

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