A holiday card to the industry, 2011
...get over the initial shock, so many developers find themselves enjoying the Agile experience more than traditional waterfall development: They get a much closer view, every day, of how what...… (2 comments)
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A matter of organizational style
...in these three dimensions, none are better or worse in absolute terms. What matters is understanding that if you work on, say, an Agile-oriented IT applications team, with low levels...… (3 comments)
Mandatory IT certifications? Bad idea.
...2000 they’d have prevented Agile. Mandatory certifications are supposed to prevent bad things from happening. In IT, I’m pretty sure that while they probably would prevent some bad things from...… (9 comments)
ManagementSpeak, 3/10/2014
ManagementSpeak: We practice Agile methodologies in all of our business practices. Translation: We practice haphazard methodologies in all of our business practices — we wait until the last minute, get...…
Missing the Target
...a $2 billion reduction in operating costs that would make Target leaner and more agile in an effort to better compete with Walmart and Amazon. To give you a sense...… (8 comments)
Digital by McKinsey
...reduce product pricing. Like that annoying song about poker, it isn’t time to count your money yet — you’re still playing the game. Agility applies to more than just Agile:...… (1 comment)
DevOps inside?
...reporting relationships. There are situations when changes to business processes can be just as iterative and incremental as Agile makes software changes and enhancements. But just as often, and especially...… (5 comments)
Lessons from an upgrade
...handle the job. Along the way we learned (or, in many cases re-learned) a few things worth sharing: Semi-technical users are more dangerous than non-technical ones. Agile practitioners know to...… (12 comments)
The politicization of everything
...than just two, with many IT professionals enjoying at least dual citizenship besides, with such fracture lines as Windows vs Linux, COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) vs open source, Waterfall vs Agile,...… (16 comments)
Flying the fiendly skies
...(okay, bureaucratic nightmare) of the IT governance process, a business manager … or, if you’re Agile, product owner … gets a project request approved. No matter what methodology you use,...… (12 comments)