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Zach Wahl Featured in CIOReview Magazine’s Special Knowledge Management Issue
Zach Wahl was featured in CIOReview Magazine’s special Knowledge Management issue. Wahl published an article titled, “The Keys to Practical Knowledge Management Systems,” detailing best practices in the strategy, design, and management of Knowledge and Information Management Systems. The article … Continue reading
Creating a Managed Metadata Column in SharePoint Online
Designing an effective business taxonomy involves facilitating a series of workshops, focus groups, content analyses, and one-on-one interviews. According to Zach Wahl, CEO of Enterprise Knowledge, the result of this approach is “a truly usable design that reflects the needs … Continue reading
How Project Managers Can Adopt an Agile Leadership Style
Being agile requires a dramatically different leadership style than what you would typically encounter with traditional project management. When I was first introduced to agile projects, I found that not only did my environment change, but my approach towards leadership … Continue reading
Website Design Best Practices
Over the last six months, Enterprise Knowledge (EK) has been in the midst of taking the best of what we know and applying it to our own website. Though we’ve helped an array of Federal Agencies, Fortune 500 Companies, and … Continue reading
The 4 Steps to Designing an Effective Taxonomy: Step #4 Measure the Findability of Your Content
Taxonomy is not as daunting as it seems. In this blog series, one of EK’s taxonomy experts, Ben White, provides 4 practical steps to designing and validating a user-centric taxonomy. Step #4: Measure the Findability of Your Content Search, which … Continue reading
The 4 Steps to Designing an Effective Taxonomy: Step #2 Make Sure Your Facets Are Consistent
Taxonomy is not as daunting as it seems. In this blog series, one of EK’s taxonomy experts, Ben White, provides 4 practical steps to designing and validating a user-centric taxonomy. Step #2: Make Sure Your Facets Are Consistent In the … Continue reading
The 4 Steps to Designing an Effective Taxonomy: #1 Design a User-Centric Taxonomy
Taxonomy is not as daunting as it seems. In this blog series, one of EK’s taxonomy experts, Ben White, provides 4 practical steps to designing and validating a user-centric taxonomy. Step #1: Design a User-Centric Taxonomy When most individuals hear … Continue reading
The Value of User Stories
Successful projects are based on a common understanding of a product vision. Without a clear product vision, projects risk wasting resources and may be exposed to delivery delays and failures. Assuming everyone on your team shares a common vision for … Continue reading
Why Agile Fails When Organizations Try to “Go Agile”
Often we hear organizations are “going” agile and trust that they are successfully embracing core agile philosophies and reaping the benefits. Yet, for most organizations, this effort seems to generate complex organizational problems that result in unintended process, people and/or … Continue reading
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