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09 Dec 09

Enesys - Home

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13 Sep 09

Agile Portfolio Management

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Often, all metrics are reported without specifying who the target audience is.
As a next step, the agile project manager assembles the written status report, which should be a short and meaningful report of the status of the project and, in particular, the past iteration

12 Sep 09

Agile Portfolio Management

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Agile project management tackles many of the issues that resulted in the 69 percent failure rate of project management methodologies just mentioned.
The rules and vocabulary of agile processes are lightweight, which allows for a quick adoption of agile principles in the enterprise if more traditional methods are kept out of the way
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- The PMO must not only play a more active role, it needs to play a proactive role. The agile PMO is a servant leader for the project, which not only removes impediments for the projects on an organizational level but also tries to prevent the impediments from occurring in the first place.
- You might notice that all these working models between the PMO and agile projects require a lot of dedication from the PMO to the project teams. This level of dedication consumes resources from the PMO. To perform successfully in an agile organization, the PMO most likely will need to be expanded from its traditional model.
- The idea of providing a consistent and uniform way of project management through a tool rarely works. In my opinion, a tool decision distracts from the real need of the organization, finding its project management practices.
- Agile projects are, in my opinion, better served if the PMO provides or collects reports of users’ experiences with tools and makes those reports available across the enterprise. T

Agile Portfolio Management

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the personnel of the PMO are expected to act as a communications bridge across various parts of the organization, harvest best practices across the enterprise, and leverage proven project management approaches. The PMO also prevents common project management pitfalls from occurring within the organization.

Agile Portfolio Management

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Isn't it already an underlying form of mistrust for senior executives to ask for additional detailed weekly status reports?

18 Aug 09

Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 6, Verse 8

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The characteristics and superiority of one who has established themselves
in yoga or the science of the individual consciousness attaining communion
with the ultimate consciousness which have been previously mentioned are
now being concluded and substantiated by Lord Krishna.

30 Jul 09

THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY by Boethius Book I

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Her clothes with the finest threads were by delicate skill

from the imperishable material of perfection,

which, as I have since learned from her coming out,

she wove herself with her own hands;

just as it usually does smoky pictures,

a kind of fog of neglected antiquity covered their form.
For these are the ones

who with the unproductive thorns of passion

kill the fertile crop of reason with its fruits

and accustom human minds to stress;

they do not liberate.

14 Jul 09

Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 6, Verse 5

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Only by constant endeavour with faith and determination is one able to
detach themselves from ego sense and misidentification with their bodily
activities and be in equiminity.

08 Jul 09

"Caritas in veritate" - Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI

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Each person finds his
good by adherence to God's plan for him, in order to realize it fully: in this
plan, he finds his truth, and through adherence to this truth he becomes free (cf. Jn 8:22)
Truth, in
fact, is lógos which creates diá-logos, and hence communication
and communion.
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- come together in the assessment of the value and substance of
  things
- Truth preserves and expresses
  charity's power to liberate in the ever-changing events of history.
- “Caritas in veritate” is the principle around which the Church's
  social doctrine turns
- When animated by
  charity, commitment to the common good has greater worth than a merely secular
  and political stand would have.
- Love in truth — caritas in veritate — is a great challenge for the
  Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized

26 Jun 09

Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 6, Verse 4

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Lord Krishna
explains that when one is no longer enamoured by the pleasures of the
senses and the sense objects and is also not even attracted to performing
the actions which are the means to obtain them, such a person is qualified
for dhyana yoga or the science of the individual consciousness attaining
communion with the ultimate consciousness by mediation.
develop the renunciation habitually

24 Jun 09

Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 6, Verse 3

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one leaves karma yoga and
becomes devoted to meditation, absorbed internally with no inclination for
external activities which impedes and distracts introspection and
reflection. This is said to be the means for spiritual knowledge to mature.
Karma yoga or prescribed Vedic activities is the explained by Lord Krishna
as the means for ascending in spiritual knowledge and achieving
renunciation in their quest for atma tattva or realisation of the soul.
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- But
  once a person has actually achieved renunciation and is securely situated
  then the cessation of activities is the rule and meditation, introspection
  and reflection becomes the means for attaining atma tattva

Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 6, Verse 2

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one renounces the
desire for rewards for action as well as the action itself, whereas in
karma yoga one renounces only the desire for reward of the action
An advanced special attribute of karma yoga is verily the attribute of
renunciation of the rewards of action. This is the purport.

20 Jun 09

Time Management Smackdown: Parkinson’s Law vs. Concentration Threshold Theory | Tools for Thought

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for it’s completion” has long been a popular assumption
Parkinson’s Law, on the other hand, is often taken quite seriously, sometimes with disastrous effects when managers attempt to increase productivity by shortening deadlines.
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- nowledge work is fundamentally different from manual work, but not because it carries more perceived importance or complexity. It’s different because people can move faster on demand but cannot think faster. Think rate is fixed, or at least controlled by factors other than willpower or coercion.
- it forces people to think about their process as a whole instead of figuring it out as they’re going along.
- We don’t procrastinate in general; we procrastinate on certain things more than others,
- Determine what specific activity is evoking procrastination. Resist the temptation to identify yourself as “a procrastinator.”
- Determine how long it takes to complete a task including procrastination time.
- The next time you schedule the task, only allot the amount to time that elapsed when you actually engaged from start to finish, which is very likely your concentration threshold.

08 Jun 09

Getting Real: Context Over Consistency (by 37signals)

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That's why context is more important than consistency. It's ok to be inconsistent if your design makes more sense that way. Give people just what matters. Give them what they need when they need it and get rid of what they don't. It's better to be right than to be consistent.

Getting Real: Three State Solution (by 37signals)

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- Regular
  
  The screen people see when everything's working
  fine and your app is flush with data.
- Blank
  
  The screen people see when using the app for
  the first time, before data is entered.
- Error
  
  The screen people see when something goes wrong.

Getting Real: Interface First (by 37signals)

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These are questions you can only truly answer when you're dealing with real screens.

06 Jun 09

Getting Real: You Can't Fake Enthusiasm (by 37signals)

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Go for happy and average over frustrated and great

Enthusiasm. It's one attribute you just can't fake.
Find someone who's enthusiastic.

05 Jun 09

Getting Real: Meetings Are Toxic (by 37signals)

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They often contain at least one moron that inevitably
gets his turn to waste everyone's time with nonsense
Set a 30 minute timer. When it rings, meeting's over. Period.

Getting Real: Alone Time (by 37signals)

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We all know that knowledge workers work best by getting into "flow", also known as being "in the zone", where they are fully concentrated on their work and fully tuned out of their environment.