Storming around
...KJR’s predecessor, InfoWorld’s “IS Survival Guide”: An app dev methodology that looks a lot like Agile, two years before the Agile Manifesto. Way back in 1996, I recommended viewing yourself...… (3 comments)
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Ben Franklin, turkeys, and design principles
...a set of core principles, while the Second Continental Congress’s preference was driven by superficial characteristics. (Okay, it’s a stretch. Sue me.) Back to agile technical architecture and the role...… (5 comments)
Preventing speed bumps
The subject: Bimodal (or trimodal, or agile, or high-speed) IT. The challenge: Culture. Culture is a challenge to IT agility. It’s a challenge if you buy into the bimodal model,...… (1 comment)
Why optimize when you can automate?
...into the big legacy systems many businesses still rely on. If we’d only had the wit to call what we were doing a methodology and label it Agile. Had we...… (14 comments)
Business is slowing down
...have become bigger and more complex over the five years covered by the study. Or maybe it’s due to Agile: Emptying a dynamically managed backlog might take more time than...… (4 comments)
Achieving organizational change
...rough edges. Interestingly enough, while it’s easier to explain business change in waterfall terms, actually implementing business change is a lot easier when you apply Agile concepts to the challenge....…
RFPs are still requests for pain.
...Agile techniques. The contortions needed to commit to a fixed price in the face of Agile’s core strength — dynamic adjustments to the project backlog as everyone involved in the...… (5 comments)
And, yet again, it’s the culture
...good negotiators.” Stereotypes are why so many IT shops resisted Agile for so long, and why so many that reluctantly adopted it are busily turning Agile in to “Scrummerfall.” Namely,...… (9 comments)
IT projects vs IT products vs KJR
...products is certainly better than organizing it around IT projects … product-mode thinking does expressly incorporate business improvement into its planning and governance practices, more easily incorporates agile thinking into...… (3 comments)
What can you learn from Y2K? (first appeared in InfoWorld)
...one. Maybe your particular problem is an ancient system with old, fragile code nobody really knows anymore. You can fix it by rewriting modules that require maintenance instead of simply...…