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

Agile Business Value Teams

Information Technology practitioners have made great strides improving delivery using Agile concepts.  Development Teams are now faster, more empowered, and motivated using frameworks like Scrum.  A key to this success is that delivery teams work closely with the business through … Continue reading

Agile Roadmaps for Product Selection

Selecting new enterprise software products is one of the most challenging and potentially high risk tasks many organizations undertake. How often have you gone through a lengthy purchasing process only to find that the choice you made is not the … Continue reading

Top 5 Agile Myths: Myth #5 Agile is Only for Software Development

As I’ve written previously, it is exciting to see more and more organizations adopting Agile development processes but there remains a great deal of confusion regarding what Agile is and how it can best be actualized.  This post addresses the … Continue reading