Interesting research. Who will be next? Would it be possible?
Each country tries to build its own Silicon Valley, sometimes not only the one. Accordingly, the KPMG research [1] the most successful in this are New York (USA), Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan) and London (UK). 58% of 740 global technology industry leaders believe likely or very likely shift the world's technology innovation capital by 2023. 27% of them believe not likely or not at all likely in it, and 16% of them are neutral. New York has a leadership position because it's a place of the biggest IT companies, like Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google is planning to expand its presence in New York. New York has a population of 8,398,748[2] distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles (784 km2), which provides great conditions to be a new technology and innovation center. Beijing is an important and very power world city. The population of Beijing at the beginning of 2016 [3], according to some estimates, is 21.7 million. There are a lot of companies there, which fields are in everything from Artifical Intelligence to electromobility. Nowadays Chinese Government support technology companies and plan to give big financial support to them (CNY 10 billion). As of 2018, the Greater Tokyo Area ranked as the most populous metropolitan area in the world. The population of the special wards is over 9 million people, with the total population of Tokyo Metropolis exceeding 13.8 million [5]. Tokyo has a leadership position in robotics development and manufacturing. Industry leaders desire concern Olympic Games 2020. London becomes a global capital of the fintech industry, and in my opinion, it has a historical background for this, though Zurich could have it too, but it is not developing in this way. Seven startups valued over $1 billion based in London, San Francisco is home for nine [1]. Russian Government built a technology innovation center. The idea was to get Russian "Silicon Valley". Skolkovo provides special economic conditions for companies working in the priority sectors of modernization of the Russian economy: telecommunications and space, biomedical technology, energy efficiency, information technology, and nuclear technology. The center cooperates with the world's leading universities and attracts the best specialists, regularly conducts training and various activities aimed at the development of innovation, technology, and support for startups. In conclusion, I'd like to say my opinion, all off the new applicants for the technology and innovation world center role have different directions for development. Therefore, I think that it is possible to decentralize such a center and, perhaps, Silicon Valley will retain its priority but will become one of the components of this world center with its specialization. Why is this important for a Project Manager? Firstly, every project has an initiating phase, each project needs money and resources. Secondly, there are no exist non-product related projects. Therefore, the location of the world technology and innovation capital is important. It is our future. It would be interesting to hear your opinion.
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New Year...new digital workplace trends...AI and robots
Categories:
Agile,
Scrum,
PMO,
Time Management,
Strategy,
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Organizational Project Management,
Business Analysis,
Communication
Categories: Agile, Scrum, PMO, Time Management, Strategy, , Organizational Project Management, Business Analysis, Communication
New Year is coming very soon. So…it’s time for taking stocks and for new trends. I think the most important things which has been affected of all people in outgoing year were the artificial intelligence and using robots. A lot of people worry when they see how quickly these things are developing, growing up and see how they could be dangerous for people. But for my opinion we have to remember that these thing are only our technologies. Only people can decide how they will use. At this point I’d like to mention Antonio Guterres, Secretary General, United Nations, who said, that the main rules in the IT, in the using new technologies are that IT and new technologies must be safety and ethical. He said this in his speech on the Web Summit in Lisbon, November 2018, which called “Nurturing a digital future that is safe and beneficial for all”. I was there, I had listen him and it was really inspiring. And I completely agree with him. Only if people will use new technologies, including AI and robots, in this way humans will go to next level their development. A lot of people feel fear that robots could change the people, but for the now it's not possible. Just look at the example from China Xinhua News. Their experiment with the robot as a news ancor was fail, because it was not interesting to see the robot, the robot had had a voice and appearance modelled on Zhang Zhao, a real ancor with Xinhua. But a lot of people didn’t like it because there is no emotions, it was some monotonously. And yesterday I had got the “2019 PMO Predictions: 4 trends for the digital workplace” by changpoint.com. I see an interesting thing in these trends because they all concern the above problem. The first trend is “Digital disruption requires new skill set from your people…but remember, they’re only human”. It means higher demand of the soft skills. We can see it now too when people must have not only technical skills, but it’s very important to have the empathy, flexibility, communication skills, emotional intelligence, creativity, the ability to teach other people, etc. The second trend is “Digitalization requires an adaptive mindset…and a panoramic view of the landscape”. It means that to have the ability to look at the problem from above, to understand the world processes, to know new technologies, to be flexible for changing the working methods and tools, to think strategically. The third trend is “Adaptive technology is your friend…and your transformativeally”. It means that we have to enjoy these technologies and find the best using of them in our activities and agile technologies. The forth trend is “Collaboration…the blending of people skills and digital delivery”. Digital delivery will continue growing up, and it could be very useful in any businesses. We can't also deny robot and AI father development and, for my opinion we could find the ways of effectivness collaboration, it will give us a lot of benefits. I'd like to propose to listen a talk between Rao Dalio and Garry Kasparov on the Web Summit 2018 “Artificial intelligence is making more and more of our decisions for us. If this capacity limitless or are there some things only human intuition can determine?” It would be interesting to know your view point. Don't hesitate, leave your comment. Have a nice day and successful stories!
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How to quickly and efficiently align documents
Categories:
Agile,
IT Methodology,
Scrum,
Time Management,
Organisation Project Management,
Communication
Categories: Agile, IT Methodology, Scrum, Time Management, Organisation Project Management, Communication
Some of you know how hard could be to fix up with customer (especially in a large company) a lot of documents when they are part of your procurement. You have to correct them again and again...to have discuss them with a lot of people, which can have some different opinions about the same things, which can have some different interests. But how could you make this process working quickly? I have developed a habit over the years of working in consulting to do the following things:
This is easily done when you have professionals in the field of project management, project office, and very difficult when they are not. But some organizations don't follow project management processes, and they don't have project management professionals, techniques. And what can we see? I was convinced on own experience, doing projects for two different large organizations. In one of them the specialists have been trained in project management according to PMBOK, the other heard nothing about it. In the first case, it was not difficult to organize the work properly and perform it easily. In the second case, it took some time on the organization of work on the project from the customer, as it was necessary to actually teach the ideology of project management and operation, as well as to overcome resistance and reluctance to change work style. But and one, and in another case, in the end, the process of working on documents was reduced to the mentioned steps. I'll be glad to get your feedback. Thank you for reading this. Success to all of you. |
Composure is one of the main leadership characteristics
Have you ever worked with a nervous head? How did you feel in this situation? Don't you think that such manager behavior has a negative effect to work? One day I was in a very difficult situation. There was a difficult project, too little time, a lot of reporting. Last day of the deadline. Hard work. Everyone is tired. All was ready except some acts and the boot modules. We need to write code on some disk units, and at this moment the program fail has gone. Programmers are ready to quit. I don't know how to correct a mistake in the program settings and restore the system. I just support them calm down, discuss and work together to find a solution, and they are in the beginning reluctantly, and then, infected by the desire to deliver work on time, be inspired, work boils, and finally, they report that all done! I see the joy on their faces. It was very pleasant. But a lawyer has been lost all nerves, she could not prepare the last act, I sent her to lunch, and after lunch, helped her, and she did it very quickly. The analyst, who performed the last important and urgent task, had mistaken, so he did not finish his work. I had to be with him and guide him, I saw he calms down and does everything precisely and accurately. We finished our work completed in time. And what I noticed, my composure and attitude on the result helped us. It was an incredible example of the power of composure. As you know, there are a lot of different researches about linking leaders and team performance. Some of them showed that relationship between leader behavior and team performance is indirect [1]. But I saw in my experience very direct linking. And I have to say that a leader must have great composure. It is one of the keys to successful team performance. There is also another opinion that composure is one of the qualities of exceptional people [2]. So, we need to remember about it and improve yourself. I'll be glad to get your feedback. Thank you for reading this. Success to all of you. References:
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Scrum vs Kanban vs XP
Categories:
Agile,
IT Methodology,
Scrum,
IT Strategy,
Organizational Project Management,
Communication
Categories: Agile, IT Methodology, Scrum, IT Strategy, Organizational Project Management, Communication
At work I was being asked to say about differencies between Scrum, Kanban and eXtreme Programming. And I'd like to share my thoughts with you.
So, there are different methodologies you can use to manage project.
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