Agile practices helping in emergency cases alias students delivering quality...
There exist many research and popular articles, case studies, analyst reports or blogs about effectiveness of Agile and Lean approaches. We want to share how Agile can help to deliver quality product...
View ArticleCoaching in Distributed Teams: Challenge, Nonsense or Added Value?
Have you ever tried to push heterogeneous groups of people to move in the same direction? It is quite a challenge, isn’t it? And now, imagine this situation in a distributed environment, with people...
View ArticleLessons from Google by Petra Cross
On Monday 30th of April, Ostrava hosted joint Google User Group (GUG) and Java User Group (JUG) event with Petra Cross from Google. Petra is Czechoslovak IT celebrity because she is the first...
View ArticleWhat is Lean IT about?
In some of the previous posts (e.g. here) I shared the idea of Lean application in IT area. Agile is great and helps a lot, but it reaches its limits when touching to HR, sales, management, sometimes...
View ArticleUpcoming technology trends will dramatically change our way of working, how...
In this blog post we summarize Gartner technology trends for upcoming year and how it can impact our way of working and delivery capabilities. Top strategic trends for the year 2013 according to...
View ArticleE-book: Stopping the negative spiral: our Lean IT experience
Lean is not a new paradigm. “Why should I care?” you can ask. Of course, there exist companies implementing and using Lean for decades, but at the same time we can observe some struggles with Lean...
View ArticleBe careful about outsourcing innovation process
Over the last few years, I experienced companies outsourcing their “innovation process” to innovation labs and studios. This steps looks likea pretty smart one from the management and business...
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