...occupy fragile niches. Gates was the only player of his time who played this game well. Gates leveraged MS-DOS to get to Windows, Windows to get to the office suite,...…
...less and be more agile than its technological predecessors. The article also explains that the reason we have to retire the term is that it has become associated with big...…
...has little in common with smoothing out a bumpy workflow. LSD proponents like the agile family of methodologies because incremental iteration greatly shrinks the queues. I suspect they’ve reached the...…
...two remote employees is just pretending. Choose your VPN carefully: And be prepared to troubleshoot. Inexplicably, VPN technology continues to be fragile. It fails frequently and isn’t always easy to...…
...Its specialization of roles adds overhead, impairs communication, delays delivery (it increases cycle time), and limits flexibility and richness of function (it reduces excellence). We call the alternative “Agile.” It...…
...pay attention to and which to ignore. Take, for example, last week’s column, which suggested non-IT business managers might benefit from Agile’s way of organizing work around generalists, rather than...…
...of what it’s really like to do business with Chinese suppliers? Or that IT’s developers might point out that more project effort goes into twiddling increasingly fragile interfaces than into...…
...scenario) or a eureka moment, when she shares her enthusiasm with you it’s a fragile situation. If you, like too many other leaders, think your job is to point out...…
“Refactoring” brings out my inner skeptic. I’ve heard too many Agile enthusiasts who sound like they code at Hogwarts, waving their wands while yelling refactorum! at badly written but functional...…
...tools won’t do the job. How about better methodologies? In fact, the move from waterfall to Agile does help, especially with projects where more of the effort goes into the...…