The world is Digital?
...Agile/DevOps combination. Collaborate: This is a big one, and Friedman missed it. Individuals can’t do everything all by themselves. That takes teams, and teams of teams. Not groups. Teams. The...… (8 comments)
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And mission makes four
...that GM offered rebates … bribes, really … to consumers to persuade them to buy (and finance) its products. Then the great recession happened and GM’s already fragile business fell...… (7 comments)
Bailing on TOGAF
...point-to-point, largely batch, poorly documented and increasingly fragile inter-system interfaces with well-engineered integration. And yet even depicting systems interfaces and integration is pretty much an afterthought for TOGAF and its...… (4 comments)
Plausibility rules
...to fix, which makes the reality even more implausible. The fix comes in three parts. Part #1: For existing applications, go Agile. Whether they’re epics, features, or enhancement-scale requests, they...… (5 comments)
What’s the TCO for reorganizations?
Short-term decision-making dominates modern executive decision-making. It’s a common and frequent criticism. But as the success of Agile application development methodologies in IT has demonstrated, short-term decision-making, in and of...…
What’s in a name?
...happening; how to fix Agile so it delivers business change instead of software; how IT and business operations fits into the whole picture; replacing IT governance with business change governance;...… (86 comments)
When Chronodebt makes sense
...have been calling “technical debt,” and I would too except that Ward Cunningham and his fellows at the Agile Aliance have already claimed it to mean “the implied cost of...… (3 comments)
The Roundtable turns
...all an attempt to placate those who see capitalism as a system that mostly looks out for someone else’s best interests, it’s a shallow and fragile change. What matters more,...… (11 comments)
How hard should you squeeze?
...you’re Amazon or anyone else, you don’t become this good at what you do in one big implementation (and I’m going to resist the temptation to segue into a waterfall-vs-agile...… (8 comments)
All you gotta do
...conversation between IT and the rest of the business Fixing Agile Building an operations-level business/IT partnership Business change governance Establishing IT-led strategy A quick look at the seven disciplines needed...… (7 comments)