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Read Kent McDonald's Executive Report "A Business Value Focus for Portfolio Management" at the Cutter Consortium.

Hear Niel Nickolaisen's on-demand webcast "Lessons on Change Management" for CIO Decisions.

       
Publications

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Podcasts and Webcasts
  • Hear Pollyanna on the InfoQ Panel at QCon, "BayAPLN Expert Panel" listen>
  • Hear Pollyanna's webseminar, "Ensuring Business Value from Distributed Testing in an Agile Environment" listen>
  • Nickolaisen, Little and Pixton speak at the Dallas APLN Leadership Summit. listen>
  • Todd Little's presentation from the Agile Conference on Context-Driven Agile Leadership: Managing Complexity and Uncertainty. listen>
  • Hear Pollyanna Pixton's podcast on Agile Leadership. listen>
  • Kent McDonald is interviewed by Ron Holohan, the host of pm411.com's Project Management Podcast. listen>
  • Hear Niel Nickolaisen's on-demand webcast "Lessons on Change Management" for CIO Decisions.

Recent Publications
Collaboration and Collaborative Leadership
  • "Creating An Agile Environment" by Kent McDonald and Pollyanna Pixton, Cutter Consortium
  • "Collaboration and Collaborative Leadership: Innovation for the Agile Enterprise" by Pollyanna Pixton, Cutter Consortium Executive Report
  • "Collaboration: Tools and Practices for Enterprise Wide Knowledge Exchange and Innovation" with Paola Di Maio, Cutter Consortium Executive Report
  • "Collaboration Without Chaos" by Niel Nickolaisen
  • "Collaborative Leadership: An Overview" by Pollyanna Pixton
  • "Fear, Trust, and the Bottom Line" by Pollyanna Pixton, The Enterprise
  • "Hiring For Integrity" by Pollyanna Pixton, Accelinnova White Paper
  • "How To Maintain Your Integrity at Work" by Pollyanna Pixton, Accelinnova White Paper
  • "How To Become a Collaborative Leader" by Pollyanna Pixton, Executive Update
  • "Leading Up: Guiding Your Leaders To Effectively Support Your Team's Efforts" by Pollyanna Pixton with Jenni Dow, Cutter Consortium
  • "The Role of Collaboration in Achieving Business-Technology Goals" (Downloadable) Cutter IT Journal Guest Editor Pollyanna Pixton, August 2007
  • "Solve Problems With Your Personal Network" by Niel Nickolaisen
  • "Unleashing Innovation: The Power of Collaborative Leadership" by Kent McDonald and Pollyanna Pixton, Cutter Consortium
  • "Vision to Action: The Power of Collaborative Leadership" by Pollyanna Pixton, International Leadership Association Conference Proceedings
  • "Team Collaboration for Senior Leadership" by Pollyanna Pixton and Diana Larsen, Cutter Consortium

Leadership Across the Enterprise
  • "Adapting Governance to Fit the Organization" by Niel Nickolaisen
  • "Closing the Gap Between SOX and Good Governance" by Niel Nickolaisen
  • "Do You Know the ABC's of Success?" by Niel Nickolaisen
  • "Elevate Your Customer Service to a High-Value Function" by Niel Nickolaisen
  • "How to Fend Off the Fate of the Samurai" by Niel Nickolaisen
  • "If You Can Measure IT, You Can Manage IT" by Niel Nickolaisen
  • "IT: Strategic and Tactical to Embrace Change" by Niel Nickolaisen, Pollyanna Pixton, and Todd Little, Cutter IT Journal
  • "Keep Communication Up Close and Personal" by Niel Nickolaisen
  • "Let Talented Staff Take Flight" by Niel Nickolaisen
  • "Sarbanes Oxley: What We Have Learned On Our Way to Compliance" by Niel Nickolaisen
  • "Seeing the Real Forest for the Trees" by Niel Nickolaisen
  • "Simplifying the Six Sigma Principle" by Niel Nickolaisen
  • "Stepping Outside the Box of Rigid Thinking" by Niel Nickolaisen
  • "The Truth Is, People Hate Change" by Niel Nickolaisen
  • "Zero In On Priorities, Stop the Stupid" by Niel Nickolaisen

Business Value Focus
  • "Agile Analysis" Kent McDonald with Colin Rand, Agile Times
  • "The Business Value of Business Value" by Kent McDonald, Cutter Email Advisor
  • "A Business Value Focus for Portfolio Management" by Kent McDonald, Cutter Consortium Executive Report
  • "Cross-Team Collaboration for Optimizing Business Value" by Kent McDonald and Jenni Dow, Cutter IT Journal
  • "Value Creation and Capture, a Model of the Software Development Process" by Todd Little, IEEE Software
  • "Value Focused Leadership: Move Boulders, Don't Throw Pebbles" by Kent McDonald, ProjectConnections.com

Portfolio, Product and Project Management
  • "A Portfolio Management Perspective of Outsourcing" by Todd Little
  • "Assessing the Cost of Outsourcing: Efficiency, Effectiveness and Risk" by Todd Little, IEEE Equity 2007 Conference Proceedings
  • "Communication and the Pragmatic Project Leader" by Kent McDonald, Agile Times
  • "Evolving From Desktop Icon to Product Manager" by Niel Nickolaisen
  • "How To Corral Your Business Leaders" by Niel Nickolaisen
  • "Integrating Software by Integrating People" by Todd Little, Accelinnova White Paper
  • "Leading Successful Projects in Changing Environments" by Pollyanna Pixton, Cutter Consortium
  • "Looking Back to Move Forward - Retrospectives During Projects" by Kent McDonald, Cutter Email Advisor
  • "The Pragmatic Project Leader" by Kent McDonald, Agile Times
  • "Questions from the Field: Do Agile Projects Require Different PM Skills?" by Kent McDonald, ProjectConnections.com
  • "The Route to Heaven: 'Differentiating' Projects" by Niel Nickolaisen
  • "What Does an Agile Project Plan Look Like?" by Kent McDonald, ProjectConnections.com
  • "What Is Agile, Really?" by Kent McDonald, ProjectConnections.com

Uncertainty and Options
  • "Adaptive Agility: Managing Complexity and Uncertainty" by Todd Little with F. Greene, T. Phillips, R. Pilger and R. Poldervaart
  • "Context Adaptive Agility: Managing Complexity and Uncertainty" by Todd Little, IEEE Software
  • "Exploration and Real Options as an Analogy for Software Development" by Todd Little, Agile Software Development Conference Proceedings
  • "Software Schedule Estimation and Uncertainty Surrounding the Cone of Uncertainty" by Todd Little, IEEE Software

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