System
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Understanding your costs – Cost is King.
Understanding where every penny goes in your business is fundamental. I really mean every penny.If you can’t track your cost you can’t track your profit. Here’s an example of how an entire Country percieves their costs versus the reality of thier costs.Most countres are like this and most businesses are like this. The Tax you…
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XYZ System: BPRF Brainstorm > Research > Prototype > Final Build
BPRF Brainstorm > Research > Prototype > Final Build I’ve wrote about this before in detail so here’s the practical short version. I use BRPF as a method of building things, within the ever evolving XYZ System. It’s a fundamental part alongside the project management aspect of the XYZ System. The project management part of XYZ is…
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XYZ SYSTEM: SET Organisation
Version: 1.1 An introduction to the concept of SET. Why have a way to organise what’s in your head? Any kind of organisational system that works for you will reduce the energy you need to dedicate to it. It being the set of all the things you do and don’t do – but are in…
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Culture: Be careful what you wish for
You’d be forgiven for peering out from under the sheets when someone mentions culture in your organisation. Culture is another one of those terms like ‘teamwork’ that has become a parody of itself, it has devolved into a HR controlled, rule oriented, cesspit of demotivational bullshit – and that’s putting it lightly. I won’t tell…
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From Blind Spots to Bright Spots: Revolutionising Your Business Model.
A long time ago in a business far far away I was working on a project that required a knowledge of how the business operated. As you’d expect, I interviewed the business owner asking her to describe her business to me, “Walk me through how everything works.” I said. A business story After about 20…
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How to build a successful Team like Jurgen Klopp.
Team, team-work, team-building words so common in business that they have become office buzz words that set the eyes rolling. Oh no, the boss has got a bunch of energy somewhere and now we’re all off to a Forrest park to climb ropes and get plastered after. That, or some variant has become the norm…
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XYZ System: Prototype
Brainstorming ? Research ? Prototype ? Final build The stage of the XYZ system is the prototype. This is where you get to test all the assumptions you have made during brainstorming and research. Your research will have eliminated some options for you, and now you have something you can try. You might have more…
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XYZ System: Research
Now that you’ve seeded your story and fleshed out the ideas in Brainstorming, It’s time to enter the Research phase. The Research phase is meant to add some scope to the story and find its edges. The story can be any size, but it is during the research phase that you can determine the appropriate…
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XYZ System: Brainstorming not brainfarting
Your story has begun, you’ve seeded your brainstorming with various points of view (‘As a’) Now it’s time to develop the story by brainstorming. Where to start?“A good point to begin with is the end”let’s dive into that piece of philosophy. What needs to happen for your story to become a reality?What does the outcome…
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Agile Stories: Whats the story?
XYZ System: Agile Stories to Brainstorming. Section Summary: 1. If you at least get everyone to ask the same way then you’ll add clarity and consistency. 2. If you go to the next step and expand the context you’ll understand your project better. A Story in Agile is the name you give your idea.The idea…
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XYZ System. In the beginning…
NASA Engineering wrapped in Agile Organisation.Big Promise, but it’s not a promise it’s a system.The last major thing I did in my previous company before I sold it was to implement a system. A system where by engineers could build the things we needed and organise themselves without me, as a manager being involved. I…