Blog - Midagon

Don’t get lost, map your digital journey easily

As a leader you have a need to improve your business top or bottom line by digital means. However, you may lack practical capabilities to lead the transformation, perhaps due to time or competence constraints. You are also painfully aware of the fact that it is the leadership team that has to approve the focus and scope of a digital intensive change. And a leader knows that a change without a

Phase gates are evil

The one single phrase I remember best from my first Scaled Agile Framework training was the quote of Dr Alan Ward: “Phase gates are evil”. I found this statement both very funny and incredibly liberating.As a project manager, I have scrambled through project phase gates for several years. This was a particularly important rite of passage at clients who had their own project management

Stop doing stupid things

One of the benefits of agile way of working, and what makes it fundamentally so well agile, is eliminating task switching and multi-tasking.You have probably noticed yourself that when you are working in a deeply focused mode, and get interrupted, it will take a while to return to that concentrated state. The quality and quantity of what can be achieved when in deep concentration is normally

We are hiring!

We are searching for the best ENTERPRISE SOLUTION ARCHITECT in Finlandto join our team.We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Solution Architect to consult our clients in their Business Transformations and Digitalisation programs.We expect you to have solid experience in EnterpriseSolution Architecture including consulting experience. You have a pragmatic and hands-on approach to

Evidence based estimation

I love this statement by W. Edwards Deming: “In God we trust. Everyone else must bring data”. It has dozens of practical applications, and one of them leads us directly to estimating project effort in agile mode.In traditional project management, the project manager drills down into proposed scope and tries hopefully with the support of the team to arrive at reasonably reliable effort

How to ensure visibility to management in agile mode

Working in more or less agile way is reality to many project teams. Sometimes the project and especially program portfolio management is the part of the organization that lags behind in this transition to more agile ways of working. A common issue for many of our clients is how to report project status to management when teams are working in agile mode. The management is used to receiving regular

Country legal mergers as part of global mergers and acquisitions

Global mergers and acquisitionsTruly global corporations have established sales operations in almost all countries in the world. Legal set-up in the country is driven by taxation and desired customer contacting party. Typical set-up is either subsidiary or branch office of the parent.Consolidation within the industry that is implemented by global mampa, the acquisition targets are typically

We want to believe – in project management methodology

As sad as it sounds, I have been doing a lot of reading on project management methodologies over the holidays. They fascinate me in many ways. The implicit assumption is that even if you have very little project experience, you can get trained in a methodology the distilled wisdom of highly experienced people - and then manage a project successfully. In effect, you could bypass years of

We are hiring: Director of Sales and Marketing

We are searching for a dynamicDIRECTOR OF SALES AND MARKETINGto lead our commercial activities.You will be overall accountable for sales and marketing of Midagon services. You will be leading overall sales activities, nominated customer accounts and leading sales and marketing planning and execution. Your personal sales focus will be in new client acquisition. We also want you to take an active