Portfolio Management: Choosing the Right Projects to Do
May 9, 2023 · 5 min read
Most organisations have more project ideas than they have capacity to execute. Project portfolio management is the structured process for selecting and prioritising which initiatives to fund — evaluating each against strategic alignment, return on investment, risk, dependencies, and resource availability. Without a disciplined portfolio process, organisations default to pet projects, political favourites, and a pipeline where everything is top priority and nothing truly gets done.
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ESG Reporting and Supply Chain: What You Need to Disclose
May 8, 2023 · 5 min read
Companies are increasingly required — by regulation, investors, and customers — to disclose the environmental and social performance of their supply chains, not just their own operations. Scope 3 emissions alone account for 70 to 90 per cent of most companies' total carbon footprint. The major reporting frameworks — GRI, SASB, CDP, TCFD, and the emerging ISSB standards — are converging on a common set of supply chain disclosures. Building the data collection systems and supplier relationships to meet those requirements is the practical challenge that most organisations face.
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Lean Six Sigma Certification: What the Belts Mean and Which One You Need
May 7, 2023 · 6 min read
The Lean Six Sigma belt system — White, Yellow, Green, Black, and Master Black Belt — describes both skill level and the scope of improvement work a practitioner leads. Choosing the right belt requires understanding what each level actually means in practice, which certification bodies are recognised in your industry, and whether a credential or a track record of demonstrated results matters more to your employer and your career.
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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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