I post articles and interviews every week. The theme is “Doing Business in Real Time” – articles address business and IT agility and the quest for sustainable prosperity in this century. (How’s that for interesting and compelling content?)
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I spent an afternoon one day sitting in a coffee house in my downtown Chicago neighborhood pondering what it means to be agile and how to measure the conditions that make business agility possible. Read the rest of this entry »
At the start of an agile project (a 30-Day Blitz for instance), the system builder works with the project team to create the initial project plan, then they embark on the actual building of the system. As work progresses, change happens and unexpected things occur. If the project plan isn’t continuously updated, then this change is handled informally. Different people start keeping their own personal to-do lists, and pretty soon people lose track of what’s on each other’s to-do lists. Confusion, arguing and indecision start to cripple the team’s actions. Read the rest of this entry »
It is possible to use information to confuse and intimidate. Detailed status reports can tell all and yet reveal very little. They can ramble on for page after trivia filled page, and in the act of telling everything they bore you to tears and you miss the important information hidden in the data dump. Read the rest of this entry »
