MARTA – Risk Management… beyond mitigation
Originally posted on my old blog in November 2009: In a previous rant about the misuse of the term mitigate in the context of risk management I listed the following strategies (I call them MARTA) for...
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I’ve recently given some time to think about company values on behalf of a client. In my research, I have looked through the stated corporate/business/company values of several organisations, I’m not...
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For many years I’ve been coaching software teams in various things such as Example Driven Methods (xDD), including BDD and TDD; pair-programming; programming; testing; retrospectives; Scrum, kanban and...
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Serendipity is core to the success of modern companies. While some may not have articulated their insights as facilitating serendipity, it was certainly what they were thinking, even if they didn’t...
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