The Methodology Obsession

The Methodology Obsession

There is an encouraging trend in IT, technology projects are succeeding at a higher rate. When I began work in the mid 1990s, it was not uncommon for approximately 70-80% of projects to fail. To this day, large, waterfall projects still appear to fail at about this...
Reboot Redoux

Reboot Redoux

It’s been almost five years since Lisa Jasper and I wrote Reboot. And it’s (gulp!) time for a second edition of the book. We are incredibly gratified that it has done so well.We’ve also learned some things. When we originally wrote the book, we based our “4 Things”...
Did HBR read Reboot?

Did HBR read Reboot?

  Here’s a good little blurb from HBR, “A Better Project Model than the Waterfall”  Several of the concepts we talk about in Reboot are included in here: hypothesis-driven thinking, agile development methodologies and a philosophical shift in...