James King

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  • I’m running a course on business model generation and innovation – April and May 2015

    A lot of people work hard at building great products, but they fail to sell them.  Fewer people really focus on the customer and those who do find that they build far more relevant (and profitable) products. But even fewer truly understand their business model and how they effectively and consistently deliver value to both…

  • I’m running a course on the dark arts of office politics again – 21 March

    Hi project professionals and people who are not too evil … I am running my course on “The dark art of office politics without losing your soul” again You can book into it through PMI Sydney and come along on Saturday 21 March if you would like to learn how to get things done in…

  • Cheat sheet for analyzing a process

    These steps don’t have a  detailed explanation but we were talking about how to analyze a process and we decided to summarize our conversation. Here a several sets of questions you can use to understand or improve a process or a step in a process.

  • A quick snapshot … A day in the life of a business analyst

    I just had a conversation with some business analysts about the methodology and approach used by good analysts. But in the end we found this pattern seemed to capture the daily and even weekly cycle of being a BA.

  • I thought training was easy – what is going on here?

    I spend a lot of my time training people in areas such as agile project delivery, business and product innovation and business analysis. Allegedly I spend around 50% of my time running training sessions, while I also spend time consulting or providing “transition management” to help an organisation through change.But against all expectation I have been seeing…

  • A rough and ready presentation on agile governance

    I recently gave a presentation on agile governance at a Gartner conference in Australia. A couple of people asked for a copy of my slides – but they don’t make a lot of sense without some explanation, so I created a short video of the presentation: The original scrappy version is here  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLf1RFwQpFc&feature=youtu.be A cleaned-up,…

  • beta version of my new collaboration card game

    I am working on some ideas to help people understand the importance of having diverse operating styles in a team and working with people whose strengths complement your own weaknesses.

  • Dealing with your stakeholders – the bozo hypothesis

    My father was an actuary (someone who loves statistics and logical thinking). So when I grew up I inherited a different view on life than what most children would inherit. Once when I was young my father tackled the difficult problem of stranger danger and the fact that there are evil people in the world.…

  • What is the difference between management and leadership?

    I have been talking to people about “leading project teams” and “leading change”, so the topic of leadership and management has come up a few times. There seems to be a common view that leadership is better than management, but I am not so sure. I believe leadership and management are a little different and…

  • If you want me to fund your start-up … I might want to ask some questions first

    I have always thought that it would be great to be extremely rich, so I think it would be great to invest in the next Google or Apple while it is just a small team working from a garage. Then I could watch the company become a billion dollar a day powerhouse and sit back…