Korsikov Consulting Limited

05/06/2021

“The current lack of end to end visibility, poor awareness of what is in place and an inability to apply controls presents a huge risk and is not an acceptable position”. MoD 💂‍♀️

If even military (with it’s unlimited budget 💰) roger importance of visibility and transparency, position of regular business (with it’s constraint funding 💰) should be rocklike!

Read more on how UK Ministry of Defence plans to transform its networks and data management in the article below 👇

So if the generals would lend us a few bob to fix it that'd be nice of them

21/03/2021

People love ❤️ to connect the dots, find patterns, dependencies and orderly structure things so no wonder giving up on WBS is hard. Just think of the amount of time it takes to maintain it!? Yet, some folks are going to spend hours for things to look organized, nothing was accomplished but at least plan/structure/architecture is up to date.

Read more on pros and cons of product backlog vs WBS in the article below 👇.

Understand the difference between the two and how they support different ways of accounting project scope and delivering value.

28/12/2020

If you need evidence that your company is not unique in it’s ridicule, watch “Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet” by Apple TV. You will see that CEO could be even more self-centered 🤦‍♂️, HR even less helpful and Marketing head with fewer marbles 🤪.

It’s a fab TV series about all aspects of everyday life in IT company which develops a game.

MYTHIC QUEST: RAVEN'S BANQUET - 2020 - COMEDY - ROB MCELHENNEYThe staff of legends. Watch Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet on February 7 on the Apple TV app wit...

26/12/2020

Some startups fail because you start it wile holes your shoe soles, some because they want to mine bitcoins with bees 🐝, others because the guy who started the whole thing is to taugh to learn soft skills.

None of these reasons are unavoidable but to know how not to dive into the pitfall, you need to do your home work. Read more in the article below 👇

Startups fail for a variety of reasons, and 90% fail in their first year. Let's find out why!

21/12/2020

Thought of the day:

20/12/2020

Dean Leffingwell can be proud, that Scaled Agile concept he introduced in 2009 was adopted by companies such as Cisco, the LEGO Group, Barclays and many others. Probably it makes sense that Agile at scale is adopted by big corporations (considering that they are the ones which have multiple products with multiple teams across multiple locations).

What SAFe adoption can do for your organisation? All what every regular corpo Joe wants:
1️⃣ Economies of scale (read lower costs);
2️⃣ Increase in productivity (read lower costs);
3️⃣ Waste/defect reduction (read lower costs).

Want to know more?
4️⃣ Read article below 👇
5️⃣ Browse internet ocean on what Scaled Agile Framework is.

These enterprises are rocking it at scaling agile. Here's what they're doing and how they got results.

31/08/2020

User Experience and User Interface is something which has probably [this is a disclaimer 😎] more in common with cocaine👃 and mind reading 🔮than with process and efficiency.

But, if you talk to people who know a bit more than just how to create icons, such as Ann Datsenko, you will see that UX/UI is a highly organized function within the company and if you:
1️⃣ Make a user flow (user journey will become a park walk rather than maze run);
2️⃣ Introduce feedback loop (extra information doesn’t hurt);
3️⃣ Document everything (you can imagine being a captain on exploration expedition).

Product you work on will more likely cause “wow!” moment rather than “WTF” effect.

Read more in the article below 👇, written by Danny Sapio .

Lessons from designing and launching my product from scratch

23/06/2020

On 2nd of June, EY Academy of Business Polska organised Financial Controlling Transformation Forum in Warszaw, where Mykola Korsikov was delivering a speach on Financial Leadership 4.0.

Many thanks to ACCA Poland and EY Academy of Business Polska for the invite and opportunity to exchange thoughts and ideas.

This video is a follow up to event organised by EY Business Academy in Warszaw, June 2020. It covers opening speach of Mykola Korsikov titled "Financial lead...

07/06/2020

Here is our new video - What is process mapping and how it looks like on real life example?

06/05/2020

TECH DEBT
For an accountant it would be an easy decision - “what is the likelihood of recovery? If chances are >50%, keep it if less, write off, that’s it”.
BUT, for developers things are way more complex, particularly because debt is not simply an internal matter and involves customer and his needs.

See below👇how Pragmatic Engineer suggests dealing with it:

Blissful unawareness, denial, then acceptance, then resistance. And finally, a pragmatic middle ground. This is the typical journey engineers go through in their relationship with tech debt. It's tempting to get straight to the point: how to remove tech debt, and how to keep it at bay. But that woul...