Author: Michael Marchi

Summary: Here’s a proposition – that the application of Agile has not delivered to desired organizational outcomes. What has been the ROI of the implementation of agile concepts and principles? Matt proposes that TOC addresses the gap.   Once again we open “The Goal” to interpret the practical use of Thinking Process Tools (some are […]

Summary:   Time for a book deep dive. This episode we dig into the Theory of Constraints as explained in the management novel “The Goal” by late Eli Goldratt (Goldratt and Cox) in 1984. Some deep (and sometimes vociferous) debate on dissecting the language, the context of the 80’s (when the book was published)  and […]

Summary: Today’s episode, we analyze and debate a recent posting that seemingly pits Systems versus Goals. This takes us down an interesting journey with respect to systems, system’s thinking and the importance for leaders to view their organizations as a system or system of systems. Next we turn our attention to the critical value of […]

Summary:   This episode we explore the notion of moving from Project to Product, as inspired by the Mik Kersten tome of the same name. We dig into why project to product, is it an either/or, can it be both and does it depend? As such, we debate the points in the context of Cynefin. […]

Summary: In light of the recent partnership between PMI and the Agile Alliance, our hosts share their perspectives on this development, scratch the surface on the respective histories of each organization and generally ponder what the longer term impacts (hopefully positive) may spring from this super alliance.

Summary:   It’s a new year and in this episode, our three headed monster (hosts MM&J), decide to retrospect on the previous year (2024) of HTAT episodes. What did we like, dislike, learn and how to shape the coming year ahead. All in an effort to be more appealing to our target audience and guide […]

Summary:   This week, to follow up our previous conversation on AI, we take another excursion down “Augmented Intelligence” lane in an effort to help Matt justify purchasing a new high powered machine to help him experiment  locally with few LLM’s (e.g. Llama vs. Perplexity) for analyzing project data and seeing where the current boundaries […]

Summary:   In this super fun episode we pick the brains of Chad Burmeister, lifetime sales geek, original founder of bdr.ai, and now host of podcast AI for Sales, and explore how Chad applied AI and LLM bots to aid in business development (AI powered BDRs). Chad shares his perspectives and cites a number of […]

Summary:   This episode, our three host crew banter about a number of items: Having a growth mindset (versus a fixed one), eating our own dog food – or at least modeling the behaviors we espouse, exploring new job opportunities to apply lean and agile principles by doing (versus merely teaching / coaching), and debate […]

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