Accenture Interactive with Fjord and Technology trends 2014...

Fjord and Accenture come together to define major trends that we believe will transform what we do, our clients’ business, and ultimately, the way we live.

Fjord comes together to brainstorm the key trends in service design, and this year our new colleagues at Accenture Interactive also joined us. The result is our combined thoughts on what to expect in the year to come.

Read more around Accenture Technology Vision here -
http://www.accenture.com/Microsites/it-technology-trends-2014/Pages/home.aspx

Read full report here - http://www.accenture.com/microsites/it-technology-trends-2014/Pages/tech-vision-report.aspx

Cheers - DJ
 

Best known Supply Chain Network Optimization Simulation tools...

Model, Optimize and Simulate Your Supply Chain using some of the best known Simulation tools -

Llamasoft -
Network optimization can identify major improvements in cost, service, sustainability, and risk – often leading to total supply chain savings of 10 percent or more. The LLamasoft Supply Chain Guru and Transportation Guru applications provide the most complete and easy-to-use network optimization functionality in the market, including:

• End-to-end model from tiers of suppliers to the customer
• Detailed modeling of complex production processes, BOMs, multi-time period capacities, etc.
• Comprehensive constraint modeling to accurately represent true behavior of your corporate supply chain
• Flexible costing model to better represent unique supply chain characteristics
• Easy-to-use scenario generation for detailed sensitivity analysis or multi-objective optimization
• Rich visualization and reporting including interactive flow diagrams, transportation routing, and much more
• Fastest solve times on the largest models

http://www.llamasoft.com/supply-chain-network-optimization-software.html

FlexSim - http://www.flexsim.com/supply-chain-simulation/

Arena - How to simulate Manufacturing Supply chain using Arena by Rockwell automation tool videos - http://www.arenasimulation.com/Tools_Resources_Video_Library.aspx
 

Agile - mutiple teams & roles and responsibilities

Can Agile be successful in multi site environment OR does it need to be colocated? Frankly speaking, from my exp. i think it needs to be colocated ...as there is so much of tight coupling required between the team members. We can have 2 teams running seperate scrums but does that work? Yes, if they are working totally independent it can be a huge success.

Key to successful team building is creating unity while celebrating the individuality of each team member => Common purpose supported by unique contributions...

Program/Release/Project TEAMS

Program/Release/Project CORE Team consists of:
•Product Owner (aka Product Manager)
•Engineering Manager
•Architect
•QA Manager
•Program Manager (aka Project Manager, Scrum Master)

Representing multiple TEAMS as a Core Team member
•Cannot attend multiple stand ups
1.Scrum team too large and being split
2.New teams being formed
3.One core team member on multiple Scrum teams
•Stagger daily stand ups
•Attend one stand up and send a proxy to the other

Few of these roles and responsibilities will help keep the boat sailing, Check out Agile Team Members – Roles & Responsibilities more @ Aaron's blog - http://aaron.sanders.name/agile/agile-team-members-roles-and-responsibilities