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Project Defibrillation


Imagine you are doing surgery - a routine tonsillectomy on a father of two young girls. His name is Dan. Something goes wrong with the anesthesia and his heart goes nuts. The defibrillator is brought out, the paddles applied to Dan's chest and you yell "CLEAR!". You trigger the defibrillator, but nothing happens, just a small clicking noise. You quickly check the machine, and everything looks okay. You try again. "CLEAR!" There's a small buzzing noise and your patient's body trembles slightly. You put the paddles down, and, getting frantic, yell at the nurses to "go find another defib machine, NOW!!!". Thirty agonizing seconds pass. Dan's vital signs are deteriorating. One of the nurses rushes into O.R. with a cart with another defibrillator machine on it. Everyone works like a well-oiled machine to set it up. Another fifteen seconds pass. It charges up and you apply it again to the chest of this young father. "CLEAR!" There's a huge shock and Dan is killed instantly. It takes a few more minutes for him to be officially pronounced dead.

Is this how projects are run in your organization?

If this had been a description of a real event, you would be furious and bewildered. You would sue the hospital for buying shoddy defibrillators. You would sue the company that made them. You would demand that the defibrillators work better - one hundred percent of the time would be about right!

Let's stop running projects this way. Traditional project management practices are like unreliable defibrillators. They work about 30% of the time. Agile is the only known reliable defibrillator for your organization's heart.

Like a defibrillator, knowing how and when to use agile properly is still hard. That's where we come in. We're experts in using agile methods to fix the heart of your organization.

Contact us before your organization flatlines.

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