Engineering Practices That Make Scrum Sustainable
May 6, 2023 · 5 min read
Without strong engineering practices, Scrum teams gradually slow down as technical debt accumulates — velocity drops, sprint planning becomes unreliable, and each sprint takes longer to stabilise than the last. The engineering practices that sustain delivery speed over time — TDD, CI, CD, pair programming, code review, clean code, and regular refactoring — are not optional extras. They are the foundation that makes Scrum work as intended.
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Indigenous Procurement: What Project Managers in Canada Need to Know
May 5, 2023 · 5 min read
The Canadian federal government's Indigenous Procurement Policy requires that certain contracts include a minimum percentage of Indigenous content or be set aside for Indigenous-owned businesses. For project managers, this means understanding what counts as Indigenous content, how to build it into procurement plans from the start, how to find qualified Indigenous suppliers, and the broader context of reconciliation through economic participation that makes this policy more than a compliance checkbox.
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Transportation Management: Getting Freight from A to B Efficiently
May 4, 2023 · 5 min read
Transportation is typically the largest single line item in supply chain cost — 8 to 12 per cent of revenue for manufacturers and retailers. A transportation management system coordinates carrier selection, rate shopping, load optimisation, shipment tracking, freight audit, and carrier performance management. The mode selection decision, carrier negotiation strategy, and the cost-service trade-off are the levers that determine how much of that spend is justified and how much is preventable.
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Lean Six Sigma in Telecom: Improving Network Reliability and Customer Experience
May 3, 2023 · 5 min read
Telecommunications companies manage vast, complex networks serving millions of customers under intense competitive pressure. Lean Six Sigma offers a structured path to reducing network fault resolution times, eliminating errors in customer onboarding, improving first-contact resolution in call centres, and increasing field technician utilisation — all while navigating the regulatory complexity and legacy infrastructure that make telecom LSS different from other industries.
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Inner Source: Applying Open Source Practices Inside Your Organisation
May 2, 2023 · 4 min read
What if the collaboration model that made Linux and the web possible could be applied to internal software development? Inner Source is exactly that — and it changes how engineering teams work together.
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Delivering a Digital Transformation: A Project Management Perspective
May 1, 2023 · 4 min read
Digital transformation programmes have among the highest failure rates of any major initiative. The reasons are rarely technical. Here is what project managers need to do differently.
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Managing Commodity Price Volatility: Strategies That Work
April 30, 2023 · 4 min read
Commodity prices can swing violently and erode margins with little warning. The organisations that weather this best are not lucky — they have a strategy.
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The SIPOC Diagram: Mapping Process Context Before Diving In
April 29, 2023 · 4 min read
Before you redline a process or collect a single data point, you need to know what you are actually looking at. The SIPOC diagram gives you that clarity in a single page.
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Trunk-Based Development: The Engineering Practice That Makes Scrum Work
April 28, 2023 · 5 min read
Long-lived feature branches are a hidden source of waste in software development: merge conflicts, integration surprises, and delayed feedback. Trunk-based development — committing to main daily, short-lived branches of no more than two days, and feature flags to hide incomplete work — enables the continuous delivery that Scrum promises but that branch-heavy workflows undermine. The technical prerequisites are real but learnable.
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Agile Transformation: What Leaders Need to Know Before They Start
April 27, 2023 · 5 min read
Many organisations launch agile transformations without understanding what they are committing to. Agile transformation is not a software rollout or a process change — it requires leadership behaviour change, organisational restructuring, a new budget model, and a culture that tolerates learning from failure. Most agile transformations stall because leadership does not change. The ones that succeed are sequenced deliberately, with leadership change first.
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Inventory Visibility: Knowing Where Your Stock Is in Real Time
April 26, 2023 · 6 min read
Inventory accuracy is foundational to supply chain performance: you cannot plan, promise, or ship what you cannot find. Most organisations believe their inventory accuracy is higher than it actually is — cycle counting reveals gaps that book inventory never shows. Achieving real-time visibility through RFID, barcodes, IoT tags, WMS integration, and in-transit tracking pays off in better service levels, lower safety stock, and faster cycle counting.
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Lean Six Sigma in Energy: Efficiency at Scale
April 25, 2023 · 5 min read
The energy sector — utilities, oil and gas, renewables — is one of the largest consumers of its own product and one of the most capital-intensive industries on earth. Lean Six Sigma has a strong track record here: reducing energy losses in transmission and distribution, improving maintenance processes, cutting outage cycle times, and streamlining the new-connection process for customers. What makes energy different — safety criticality, regulatory intensity, long asset lives — shapes how LSS must be applied, but does not prevent it from delivering results.
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