by Catherine Searle | Mar 23, 2018 | CIO, Customer Experience, Digital, governance, portfolio, Project Management, transformation
“A game of two halves” Is normally an analogy synonymous with football. Manager’s are seen as the master tacticians, responsible for the team’s blueprint for success. How will they engineer a cup run or win the league? They recruit what they...
by Catherine Searle | Mar 19, 2018 | Agile, crowd testing, Customer Experience, governance, portfolio, Project Management, Testing, transformation
As organisations look to transform their business; through initiatives such as cloud adoption, customer centric delivery and commitment to aligning the IT and business worlds to a common goal, it is is no longer enough to treat these as a programme of work. Instead...
by Catherine Searle | Mar 5, 2018 | Agile, Digital, governance, Project Management, transformation
Traditionally, the business have called the shots and IT have been servants to the cause. Though there were many successful projects delivered in this way the change in the corporate machine, coupled with the rise of technology and efficient ways of working has led to...
by Catherine Searle | Dec 13, 2017 | Agile, governance, Project Management, Testing
Having worked over many years on various sized projects, similarities can be drawn irrespective of who runs the project, what the business priority is and how much budget is available. Wherever you go you are likely to face the same issues or anti-patterns when it...
by Catherine Searle | Oct 17, 2017 | governance, Project Management, Testing
Having worked on numerous high profile projects, it is still surprising to find push back from stakeholders and delivery teams not to include dedicated story points and capacity for the not so ‘sexy’ error handling and UI error / warning messages from iteration...
by Catherine Searle | Aug 4, 2017 | Agile Testing, governance, Project Management, Testing
Travelling around different clients, with different objectives; different risk appetites; the one question that always comes up is related to Governance. Irrespective of what Methodology your project is following; be it SCRUM, Waterfall, SCRUMFALL, there will always...