Derek Huether
Atlassian's approach on Enterprise Strategy and ...

One of my responsibilities at Atlassian is to shape how we position our solutions within evolving market trends. I was asked to write a series of blog posts to help articulate the position. Below is an excerpt. To read the entire post or download the whitepaper, just select the button.

Atlassian's approach on Enterprise Strategy and Planning
Metrics
Derek Huether
Most Important Metric for an Enterprise

As an executive, you will be faced with the choice to do the pivot (if you can) or persevere (if you have no other choice). This will lead to a series of “bets”. You lead with a hypothesis that the things you change will allow you to operate at pre-event levels. But, how long will it actually take for you to validate your hypothesis and have a bet pay off with pre-event levels? If you run out of time to figure it out or run out of bets you can place, then you either lose your standing in the market or worse risk going out of business.

Derek Huether
How to identify dependencies with Tableau and ...

Regardless of the organization or institution, there will always be dependencies. The larger the organization, the greater chance of the existence of dependencies.
This template is available for download from Tableau Public

Video
Derek Huether
Value Stream Management

In the following interview (both video and audio), Dave Prior and I explore why Value Stream Management is so important, how it works, the connection to Value Stream Mapping, and how you can get started with it.

Derek Huether
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics that are used to evaluate the performance of an organization or individual. They are used to measure progress towards achieving specific goals or objectives and to determine whether an organization or individual is meeting their targets.

Twitter

Shared Items in Google Reader

Yesterday, I listened to This Week in Google 3 (TWIG) on the way home from the office.  They talked about a TechCrunch article detailing new features of Google Reader.  Though I don't believe I've discovered my one-stop-shop to find or disseminate information I digest and enjoy on a daily basis, I feel Google Reader is heading in a good direction.  The hard part is just incorporating it into my current routine.  As soon as I arrive at the office, I check email, voicemail, and then it's off to Google Reader and Twitter.  I do all of this before  8AM.  It's not that I intentionally make this a habit.  It just is. Google ReaderSo, in the spirit of early adoption, I'm going to attempt to use one of the new social features of Google Reader.  It is the sharing of items from Google Reader in my Google Profile and distribute to social sites like Facebook, Twitter...  My first share is Visualizing the Flow: Polar-State Based Personal Kanban with Habit Trackers via Evolving Web by Jim Benson on 8/1/09.  You can find it at google.com/reader/shared/derek.huether

What is my new habit?  Share at least one item I read in Google Reader to my Google Profile and Twitter on a daily basis.  Enjoy!

My Personal Kanban Story

Personal Kanban

Personal Kanban

A little over a month ago, Agile Zen started following me on Twitter.  They are creators of a very clean web-based kanban solution.  Around the same time, I connected with Jim Benson.  Jim is a collaborative management consultant.  He is the CEO of Modus Cooperandi, a consultancy which combines Lean, Agile Management and Social Media principles to develop sustainable teams.

Though I've used information radiators like kanbans in the past, I've been working in a non-Agile PMO for the last six months and it's all very foreign to them.  Thanks to reading the works of David Anderson, Jim Benson, and AgileZen, I'm back in the game.  I'm using AgileZen on a daily basis for everything from business deliverables, to an entrepreneurial project, to my wife's honey-do list.

My actual task completion velocity has noticeably increased in the last month.  I attribute that to AgileZen having a very easy to use product, Jim musing on a daily basis on the topic, and most importantly limiting what I'm working or focused on.

I wish I could thank all of the kanban supporters out there that I follow on a daily basis.  These 3 really have to be mentioned.  If you're interested in Kanban, look them up.

IE6 Friend or Foe?

Upon reviewing my Google Analytics account, I discovered 25% of my web traffic is from users using Internet Explorer 6. Almost the same amount of my AdSense revenue is from IE6 users. Being my site is designed for the current browsers, it misbehaves when viewed by IE6. I can't just ignore them, since clearly one quarter of my ad revenue is coming from these users. Still, I want to offer the best user experience. If you want to read more about the same issue impacting others, read the Mashable article. I'm seeing quite a bit of talk on Twitter about this issue. I wonder if it will have an impact.

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Twitter and a Challenge to Communicate

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Twitter Twitter allows us to share the time and prevents us from trying to explain how to build the clock.

This morning, Dave Garrett, CEO of Gantthead.com and I were attempting to communicate via Twitter on the topic of PMI and Agile Scrum.

We were both finding it difficult to compress everything we wanted to say into 140 character posts.  I highly doubt Twitter is going to replace the telephone or email as a central method of communications.  It is, however, a great tool to capture the timeline and get your thoughts out quickly to like-minded people.  Regardless of the constraints, it's always good to read Dave's viewpoint or see what he'll post next.  If you want to find an excellent Project Management resource, I recommend you check out and join Gantthead.com.  If you want to see the world from Dave's perspective, minute by minute, I recommend you follow him on Twitter.

140 characters aside, we were able to get our points across to one another.

(Image courtesy of Twitter)