The Agile Manager

In the not too distant past, software development was notorious for taking too long, costing too much, and having a high rate of cancellatio...

Interest rates have been climbing for two years now. The Wall Street Journal ran an article yesterday with the headline the days of ultra l...

I’ve been writing about Agile Management for over 15 years. Along the way, I’ve written (as have many others) how to get Agile practices in...

The ultimate state for any team is self-determination: they lead their own discovery of work, self-prioritize that work, self-organize thei...

The captive corporate IT department was a relatively early adopter of Agile management practices, largely out of desperation. Years of expe...

Last year, I wrote that one of the core capabilities of an Agile manager is to "create and adapt the mechanical processes and social s...

One of the benefits of being an agile organization is the elimination of IT shadows: the functions and activities that crop up in response t...

We saw last month that just because somebody is the manager of an Agile team does not make that person an Agile manager. The Agile manager...

Engineers have long had a poor relationship with managers. There are the stories long told of engineers unconstrained by management executi...

In recent days, I’ve been reminded of some core company values, once fresh and different, later taken for granted. It was good to be remind...

Distributed software development has been practiced for decades. Companies with global footprints were experimenting with this at least as ...

British trade in the West was never an instrument of empires. It had no headquarters like the compounds at Montreal and no capitol like the...

That six month experiment with Agile practices yielded off-the-charts results in time-to-market with quality, as well as sponsor and user sa...

Firms in industries ranging from financial services to retail pharmacy to fast food aspire to be "platform companies." In the min...

In the previous post , we saw there are quite a few similarities between the Patrol method and self-directed Agile teams. It stands to reas...