by Catherine Searle | Aug 18, 2020 | Business Bites, business coaching, Business Strategy, coaching, COVID-19, Human Leadership, Leadership, mental health, start-ups, Uncategorized
With the news this week that the UK is officially in an economic recession for the first time in 11 years, what does this mean for you, your business or your employers? The difference with this recession is that it was not market driven. 2008 saw the collapse of the...
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 | 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...