Great Product Owner Habits
Depending on your environment, you may have worked with a Product Owner who functioned as an “Agile Project Manager” or Business Analyst. They “led” the project, captured requirements, wrote user stories, and managed the backlog. For others, the Product Owners … Continue reading
Search Design Best Practices
Search is one of the most important capabilities of every Knowledge Management project on which we work. Every company of any size has to find a way to make search work. It can be a website search for customers, a … Continue reading
Agile Release Planning Best Practices
Our clients often ask us: how do you know when to release a software product or website? No product manager wants to release if functionality is broken or not usable, yet good business mandates regular progress to users and stakeholders. How … Continue reading
Change Management for Agile Projects
Through our years of designing, developing, and implementing knowledge and information management technologies, we’ve consistently regarded user understanding and buy-in as key criteria for success. The change management profession aims to reduce the purported 70% failure rate on large projects … Continue reading
Five Creative Search Solutions Using Text Analytics
On April 1, 2015, EK’s Joe Hilger shared 5 creative search solutions using text analytics at Text Analytics World. Continue reading
Agile Knowledge Management
Companies in nearly every industry are adopting Agile techniques to enhance IT projects, manage marketing initiatives, and manage their business. If you are passionate about Knowledge Management (KM), you may wonder how Agile and KM fit together. We at Enterprise … Continue reading
Six Ways to Simplify Metadata Management
Good metadata is critical to helping people find information. Metadata can be used to enhance search tools, drive navigation and relate documents to one another. Unfortunately, manually adding metadata to content is cumbersome for small batches of content and impractical … Continue reading
IV&V for Agile Projects
The Federal government is transitioning more and more projects to Agile development methodologies. Agile’s success with commercial projects has led to greater adoption of Agile in the Federal Government. The move to Agile poses a number of challenges for government … Continue reading
Building a Business Case for Knowledge Management
I am sure many of you have been following the the GM ignition switch recall. The Washington Post has an interesting article on what happened the other day. As I read the story, it painted a clear picture for me … Continue reading
Using Agile Principles to Deliver Real Business Value at Scale
Delivering real business value from systems development efforts, even using agile approaches, turns out to be a formidable challenge especially in larger enterprises. Case studies of failed deliveries abound and too often reach general public notoriety. This talk shows organic … Continue reading