Tag: PARETO PRINCIPLE

What is agile? Part 4 – The spike

Oct 8, 2018

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Graeme Smith

in Agile, Education, Educator’s Journey, edupreneur, Executive Education, Project, Project management

Here’s one more thing from the Agile Fundamentals course I did with my Auckland University Executive Education whanau. This part was a good takeaway in practical terms. It is something that is called a spike. A risk-based spike is kind of a proof of concept. It is a prototype, a real-time experiment of what you…
What is agile? Part 3 – The Pareto principle

Oct 8, 2018

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by

Graeme Smith

in Agile, Education, Executive Education, Project, Project management, University of Auckland

Here’s the third thing I learned from my recent Agile Fundamentals course at the University of Auckland with Steven Briggs. The Pareto principle is the 80/20 ratio that we sometimes hear about in time management. In this context, it’s a reminder to not overload people. In a nutshell, rather than working to a 100% productivity…