Don’t build it: a practical guide for those building Civic Tech - Luke Jordan...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 20th April 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Tips for Nonprofits- Manage Content & Collaborate in the Cloud.Box
Do you daydream about having a single repository for every asset, picture, file, document, storyboard, spreadsheet and want to be able to manage and collaborate with all of those in the cloud?
We're here to help! In this sideshow Box.org's Bryan Breckenridge, GuideStar's Tony Rodriguez, and nonprofit founder Nicole Serena Silver talk about tips for using the cloud to manage content, share files, and collaborate with everyone you need.
Learn:
Ways to collaborate with staff and supporters in the cloud
About document centralization and security
Tips on cloud content management, no matter what tools you use
5 tips on moving content collaboration to the cloud (enterprise content management)
Hear about 5 nonprofits collaborating really well in the cloud
Specialists & Generalists: Team up for SuccessHeather Wilde
Presentation given at the 2015 Kansas City Developer Conference (#kcdc2015) that gives a plan for Generalists to find their way onto teams at all levels of a company, and for Specialists to help become more integrated.
Don’t build it: a practical guide for those building Civic Tech - Luke Jordan...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Show & Tell event, which was held virtually on 20th April 2021. More details on the event can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/showandtells/2021
Tips for Nonprofits- Manage Content & Collaborate in the Cloud.Box
Do you daydream about having a single repository for every asset, picture, file, document, storyboard, spreadsheet and want to be able to manage and collaborate with all of those in the cloud?
We're here to help! In this sideshow Box.org's Bryan Breckenridge, GuideStar's Tony Rodriguez, and nonprofit founder Nicole Serena Silver talk about tips for using the cloud to manage content, share files, and collaborate with everyone you need.
Learn:
Ways to collaborate with staff and supporters in the cloud
About document centralization and security
Tips on cloud content management, no matter what tools you use
5 tips on moving content collaboration to the cloud (enterprise content management)
Hear about 5 nonprofits collaborating really well in the cloud
Specialists & Generalists: Team up for SuccessHeather Wilde
Presentation given at the 2015 Kansas City Developer Conference (#kcdc2015) that gives a plan for Generalists to find their way onto teams at all levels of a company, and for Specialists to help become more integrated.
Why do optimization programmes get derailed? DDTT#7 AmsterdamManuel Da Costa
Why do testing programmes fail? AB testing is easy but running a programme with different stakeholders is harder. This talk was given on 4th July 2017 in Amsterdam to a crowd of In-house CRO and marketing individuals.
All I Wanted Is to Found a Startup - Demi Ben-Ari - PanoraysDemi Ben-Ari
Once you have the “Great groundbreaking Idea of your life”, what are all of the mistakes that you can do to fail it in the world of entrepreneurship, we’ll talk about the idea, partners, fund raising and company culture that you’d like to create, first steps to creating the best company possible and have some fun during so.
Promise to share from experience.
Michael Kacprzak - Agile Project Management, doświadczenia z okopów na wesołoPMI Szczecin
Prezentacja z 8. Spotkania PMI Szczecin, z dn. 23 lutego 2016 r.
Michael Kacprzak - Agile Project Management, doświadczenia z okopów na wesoło
Michael jest współtwórcą Spotbeans oraz twórcą Switch2Agile. Pierwsze doświadczenia jako kierownik projektu zdobywał w projektach sektora publicznego w IBM. Do niedawna pracował jako lead agile coach w jednym z najprężniej rozwijających się startupów w Berlinie – Babbel. Od prawie roku zacumował ponownie w Szczecinie, gdzie jako współtwórca Spotbeans rozwija innowacyjną aplikację dla dietetyków TiqDiet. Ponadto jest doświadczonym mówcą i trenerem z zakresu lean i agile zarówno w Polsce jak i zagranicą. Jest pierwszą osobą w Polsce, która zdobyła certyfikat SPC (Scaled Agile Program Consultant) uprawniającą do akredytowanych szkoleń Scaled Agile Framework.
How Big Data Can Help Your Business: Case Studies from ReadWriteWeb - Stamped...StampedeCon
At StampedeCon 2012 in St. Louis, David Strom of ReadWriteWeb.com presents: Pulling from ReadWriteWeb.com’s coverage of Big Data technologies in the Enterprise, we’ll see examples of how FedEx, Associated Press and others are using Big Data to drive their decisions.
Not all projects are the same. Understanding what the dilemma or problem is, and gaining a shared understanding of it is very important.
Sometimes we need to go beyond stakeholder engagement, and truly collaborate!
10 Traits of Highly Effective Project ManagersMike Fisher
Project Management is everywhere. Project management is global, in every industry, in every company, in every department. Behind every initiative you'll find a project manager, whether by profession or chance, who must effectively lead.
Here are 10 Traits of Highly Effective Project Managers.
Jeff Gallimore, Gene Kim, and Tim Buntel discuss the tactics behind expanding DevOps in the enterprise, in this great presentation. Watch the on-demand webinar here: http://bit.ly/2xygVQ7
Why do optimization programmes get derailed? DDTT#7 AmsterdamManuel Da Costa
Why do testing programmes fail? AB testing is easy but running a programme with different stakeholders is harder. This talk was given on 4th July 2017 in Amsterdam to a crowd of In-house CRO and marketing individuals.
All I Wanted Is to Found a Startup - Demi Ben-Ari - PanoraysDemi Ben-Ari
Once you have the “Great groundbreaking Idea of your life”, what are all of the mistakes that you can do to fail it in the world of entrepreneurship, we’ll talk about the idea, partners, fund raising and company culture that you’d like to create, first steps to creating the best company possible and have some fun during so.
Promise to share from experience.
Michael Kacprzak - Agile Project Management, doświadczenia z okopów na wesołoPMI Szczecin
Prezentacja z 8. Spotkania PMI Szczecin, z dn. 23 lutego 2016 r.
Michael Kacprzak - Agile Project Management, doświadczenia z okopów na wesoło
Michael jest współtwórcą Spotbeans oraz twórcą Switch2Agile. Pierwsze doświadczenia jako kierownik projektu zdobywał w projektach sektora publicznego w IBM. Do niedawna pracował jako lead agile coach w jednym z najprężniej rozwijających się startupów w Berlinie – Babbel. Od prawie roku zacumował ponownie w Szczecinie, gdzie jako współtwórca Spotbeans rozwija innowacyjną aplikację dla dietetyków TiqDiet. Ponadto jest doświadczonym mówcą i trenerem z zakresu lean i agile zarówno w Polsce jak i zagranicą. Jest pierwszą osobą w Polsce, która zdobyła certyfikat SPC (Scaled Agile Program Consultant) uprawniającą do akredytowanych szkoleń Scaled Agile Framework.
How Big Data Can Help Your Business: Case Studies from ReadWriteWeb - Stamped...StampedeCon
At StampedeCon 2012 in St. Louis, David Strom of ReadWriteWeb.com presents: Pulling from ReadWriteWeb.com’s coverage of Big Data technologies in the Enterprise, we’ll see examples of how FedEx, Associated Press and others are using Big Data to drive their decisions.
Not all projects are the same. Understanding what the dilemma or problem is, and gaining a shared understanding of it is very important.
Sometimes we need to go beyond stakeholder engagement, and truly collaborate!
10 Traits of Highly Effective Project ManagersMike Fisher
Project Management is everywhere. Project management is global, in every industry, in every company, in every department. Behind every initiative you'll find a project manager, whether by profession or chance, who must effectively lead.
Here are 10 Traits of Highly Effective Project Managers.
Jeff Gallimore, Gene Kim, and Tim Buntel discuss the tactics behind expanding DevOps in the enterprise, in this great presentation. Watch the on-demand webinar here: http://bit.ly/2xygVQ7
2 days agoShravani Kasturi DiscussionCOLLAPSETop of Form.docxherminaprocter
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Shravani Kasturi
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The organization projects have a different strategical plan that can help in enterprise goals achievements. There are some of the projects that require some of the bulky of the activities that will help the business management to achieve the implemented goals and objectives using different ideas. There is a uniqueness of the project that can be detected to show some of the differences in the process and ensuring there is goals achievement in the completion of the project process. It is important to consider timelines when expecting the completion of the project.
The projects and daily activities have some of the differences since the projects take too long for its completion while daily activities take a short period. The implementation of the daily activities requires the business to have a continuous operation as deployed by business management. Moreover, the daily activities have no indicated date or schedule plans which are implemented in the project process to help in achieving the business goals.
The organization should create group management to help in making better decisions that will lead to effective practices that will increase the effectiveness of the project management by considering the team members' support and idea-sharing. The organization project should be recorded to make a comparison in some of the areas such as members' roles and responsibilities. Moreover, business management is recommended to focus on some of the areas where they consider the quality of the project's goals achievements. According to Jissink, Rohrbeck, & Schweitzer (2017), the implementation of the group or project team requires effective leadership skills to help in influencing the members for the project successful completion.
Ultimately, some of the challenges occur due to the use of information technology in some areas. The cybersecurity has been issued that interferes with most of the projects since there are some of the members that can leak the information to other business competitors thus exposing the business project planning. Moreover, the budget allocation can also be affected by the use of IT thus creating difficulties in project management, Papke-Shields, & Boyer-Wright (2017). The project's uniqueness should consider some of the needs in planning and having effective preparation for successful project completion.
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The organization is progressively setting out for massive scope change projects to adjust to a continually changing business condition. An assortment of elements impacts the multifaceted nature of projects along these lines making their extension hard to characterize and oversee. For these projects to accomplish their key objectives, it can't be essential to break down their degree into controllable constituents, yet additionally to line the pieces back again into a durable entirety.
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Four Future Trends in Leadership Developmentnickpetrie
The environment that leaders operate in is changing so fast that the methods being used to develop them is not keeping pace. This session is based on a one year research project at Harvard focused on the question, 'What will the future of leadership development look like?'
In this session your organization will learn how to design and deliver leadership programs that equip leaders with the skills they need for an increasingly complex world. Topics to be addressed include:
- The emerging challenges for leaders in the workplace
- The skills and capacities needed by leaders to meet these challenges
- The four trends shaping the future of leadership development
- They key principals for the design of future leadership programs
Why Projects Fail + Four Steps to SucceedKevin Wordon
Understand why digital and IT projects fail and discover four simple project management tips to succeed.
Topics covered:
- Agile Decision Making
- The OODA Loop
- Clear Direction & Common Goals
- Defining Requirements
- Forming Your Project Team
Identifying and Managing Waste in Complex Product Development EnvironmentsKen Power
Product Development can be viewed as a Complex Adaptive System. Different people, groups, organizations and systems collaborate in a complex network of relationships and dependencies to produce something of value - generally a product or service. Identifying waste in this value network is a critical step towards creating a truly lean organization.
These slides are from an interactive, hands-on workshop that I ran at the Agile India 2012 conference in Bengaluru, India.
There is a corresponding Blog entry here:
http://wp.me/pSOIL-fE
It’s not hard to be overwhelmed by the wealth of content available today. Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data 1. That’s equivalent to 10 million compact discs that when stacked, would equal the height of 4 Eiffel towers 2. But the explosion of both content and digital technology hasn’t actually increased productivity. In fact, content searches cost companies over $14,000 per worker and nearly 500 hours per worker every year 3.
So how can you break through the noise? The most successful CLOs have begun harnessing the power of all learning experiences through curation, and more importantly, context. Curation and context powers learning in a variety of ways that can help you and your learners make sense of the plethora of information and reduce barriers to creating a culture of continuous learning.
This presentation highlights two of the most important aspects of social software: 1) focusing on the people that create and share the content, 2) using new features to enhance existing business processes. Two customer case studies (GT Nexus and Hayes Knight) are presented to provide examples.
Growth Hackers have ushered in a new era of data and product-driven growth. Growth Hackers are a mix of product, data and marketing.
Growth Hacking is a skillset and a mindset.
HU245 Employee Rights Case Study Employee Rights C.docxwellesleyterresa
HU245 Employee Rights Case Study
Employee Rights Case Study
For seven years, Allen Lopez had worked for ExtremeNet, a well-known, global, high-technology
company that provides clients with Internet services such as e-commerce and Web development,
online marketing, strategic planning, and research. Allen was well paid and performed well in a
responsible middle-management position, which he found rewarding. However, as ExtremeNet
struggled to manage the effects of an economic downturn, Allen became disenchanted with the
company's treatment of lower-level employees, including his own assistant. Among Allen's concerns
were gender and age discrimination during layoffs, as well as changes to personnel policies that he
believed treated lower-level employees unfairly.
Allen's frustrations grew after he raised his concerns in vain with his superiors. What he did next put
his career in jeopardy: Working at home over several weekends, Allen created and published on the
Internet a satiric website that inveighed against the abusive management practices of a fictional
company that bore a striking resemblance to ExtremeNet. The site gained some notoriety among
high- tech websites and in the business press.
The vice presidents of ExtremeNet were incensed to learn of the site's existence and were concerned
that the site generated so much traffic and publicity. Although Allen protested that he acted out of a
sense of justice and asserted that his creative work was protected by his first amendment rights, this
did not prevent the leadership team of ExtremeNet from hastily assembling an emergency meeting to
decide whether Allen Lopez should be discharged, and whether ExtremeNet should file suit to have
his satirical website removed from the World Wide Web.
Assignment 1: Prioritizing Projects at D. D. Williamson (Case Study from Chapter 2)
Due Week 3 and worth 240 points
Read the case titled: “Prioritizing Projects at D. D. Williamson” found in Chapter 2.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
Analyze the prioritizing process at D. D. Williamson.
Suggest two (2) recommendations to improve the prioritizing process.
Create a scenario where the implemented process at D. D. Williamson would not work.
Project five (5) years ahead and speculate whether or not D. D. Williamson will be using the same process. Justify your answer.
Use at least four (4) quality (peer-reviewed) resources in this assignment.PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN ACTION: Prioritizing Projects at D. D. Williamson
One of the most difficult, yet most important, lessons we have learned at D. D. Williamson surrounds project prioritization. We took three years and two iterations of our prioritization process to finally settle on an approach that dramatically increased our success rate on critical projects (now called VIPs, or “Vision Impact Projects”).
Knowing that one of the keys to project management success is key management support, our first approach a ...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) offers new opportunities to radically reinvent the way we do business. This study explores how CEOs and top decision makers around the world are responding to the transformative potential of AI.
The case study discusses the potential of drone delivery and the challenges that need to be addressed before it becomes widespread.
Key takeaways:
Drone delivery is in its early stages: Amazon's trial in the UK demonstrates the potential for faster deliveries, but it's still limited by regulations and technology.
Regulations are a major hurdle: Safety concerns around drone collisions with airplanes and people have led to restrictions on flight height and location.
Other challenges exist: Who will use drone delivery the most? Is it cost-effective compared to traditional delivery trucks?
Discussion questions:
Managerial challenges: Integrating drones requires planning for new infrastructure, training staff, and navigating regulations. There are also marketing and recruitment considerations specific to this technology.
External forces vary by country: Regulations, consumer acceptance, and infrastructure all differ between countries.
Demographics matter: Younger generations might be more receptive to drone delivery, while older populations might have concerns.
Stakeholders for Amazon: Customers, regulators, aviation authorities, and competitors are all stakeholders. Regulators likely hold the greatest influence as they determine the feasibility of drone delivery.
Senior Project and Engineering Leader Jim Smith.pdfJim Smith
I am a Project and Engineering Leader with extensive experience as a Business Operations Leader, Technical Project Manager, Engineering Manager and Operations Experience for Domestic and International companies such as Electrolux, Carrier, and Deutz. I have developed new products using Stage Gate development/MS Project/JIRA, for the pro-duction of Medical Equipment, Large Commercial Refrigeration Systems, Appliances, HVAC, and Diesel engines.
My experience includes:
Managed customized engineered refrigeration system projects with high voltage power panels from quote to ship, coordinating actions between electrical engineering, mechanical design and application engineering, purchasing, production, test, quality assurance and field installation. Managed projects $25k to $1M per project; 4-8 per month. (Hussmann refrigeration)
Successfully developed the $15-20M yearly corporate capital strategy for manufacturing, with the Executive Team and key stakeholders. Created project scope and specifications, business case, ROI, managed project plans with key personnel for nine consumer product manufacturing and distribution sites; to support the company’s strategic sales plan.
Over 15 years of experience managing and developing cost improvement projects with key Stakeholders, site Manufacturing Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Maintenance, and facility support personnel to optimize pro-duction operations, safety, EHS, and new product development. (BioLab, Deutz, Caire)
Experience working as a Technical Manager developing new products with chemical engineers and packaging engineers to enhance and reduce the cost of retail products. I have led the activities of multiple engineering groups with diverse backgrounds.
Great experience managing the product development of products which utilize complex electrical controls, high voltage power panels, product testing, and commissioning.
Created project scope, business case, ROI for multiple capital projects to support electrotechnical assembly and CPG goods. Identified project cost, risk, success criteria, and performed equipment qualifications. (Carrier, Electrolux, Biolab, Price, Hussmann)
Created detailed projects plans using MS Project, Gant charts in excel, and updated new product development in Jira for stakeholders and project team members including critical path.
Great knowledge of ISO9001, NFPA, OSHA regulations.
User level knowledge of MRP/SAP, MS Project, Powerpoint, Visio, Mastercontrol, JIRA, Power BI and Tableau.
I appreciate your consideration, and look forward to discussing this role with you, and how I can lead your company’s growth and profitability. I can be contacted via LinkedIn via phone or E Mail.
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Oprah Winfrey: A Leader in Media, Philanthropy, and Empowerment | CIO Women M...CIOWomenMagazine
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2. What Characterizes
An Experimental Project?
Intricate
Constraints on resources, duration
Volatile
Uncertain in several ways
A hard nut needing to be cracked.
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10. Enable “Freeflows”Via Roles
Freeflows (def): Efficient, open channels that facilitate progress.
These must be enabled and maintained.
Leaders –To keep the team on track, even if there is no real leader.
Ambassadors – Free most of the team from the outside world, except when it helps them in some way.
Admins –Who get rid of the chores.
Secretary –Who keeps everything organized. Oftentimes the best secretary is the project lead, who is
empowered to create and maintain systems of organization, is smart enough to “get” what is being looked at,
and for whom the act of organization helps in understanding the project as it is.
Mad Scientists – People who aren’t comfortable doing anything more than being eccentric, but usefully so.
Hard Workers – Cooperative and dependable individuals who do most of the work.
Scouts –The people who beg, borrow and “steal”.
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13. KeyThemes For Improving
Experimental Projects
Communication channels need to be fortified.
Environments that are “dynamic” help lubricate creative processes.
Management’s purpose is to enable.
Learning and discovery is a significant theme, implemented via
prototyping, team competition, exhaustive research, etc.
Constrained permit a dynamic journey through revision, increased
margins, prototyping iterations, and built-in excursions.
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14. Alternative Set ofThemes
For Enabling Optimality
Communication between teammates
Lack of distraction
Constantly revisiting the objective
Constant mixing
Deep and diverse technical competence
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15. This work was originally created for
NASA’s Project Management Challenge at GalvestonTX
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