The Agile Manager

There’s a lot of hand wringing going on over the impact of AI in software development. Depending on who you ask, AI (a) will eliminate the ...

Consulting is an episodic line of work. That’s great for the individual consultant because of the sheer variety it provides: different ind...

The 20th century company acquired capital assets (property, plant and equipment); employed a large, low skilled secondary workforce to produ...

News media have been trying to interpret the economic and commercial ramifications that will come about as a result of the US elections earl...

I’ve mentioned before that one of my hobbies is lapidary work. I hunt for stone, cut it, shape it, sand it, polish it, and turn it into art...

Organizational change, whether digital transformation or simple process improvement, spawns resistance; this is a natural human reaction. M...

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

My blogs in recent months have focused on macroeconomic factors affecting tech, primarily inflation and interest rates and the things drivin...

I wrote some time ago that labor is enjoying a moment . New working habits developed out of need during the pandemic that in many ways incr...

The WSJ carried a guest analysis piece on Monday proclaiming the need to eliminate the IT department . While meant to be an attention-grabb...

The pandemic has created a lot of interesting labor market dynamics, hasn’t it? Week after week brings a new wave of employee survey result...

In the past year, I’ve written several times about changes taking place and likely to be long lasting in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

For two decades now, we’ve heard about the threat of tech disruption to established industries and incumbent firms. Yet it isn’t the tech t...

Some years ago, I was working with a company automating its customer contract renewal process. It had licensed a workflow technology and co...