The Agile Manager

Please join me on 26 May for a webinar on Activist IT Investing . An ounce of good governance is worth a pound of project rescue. Agile prac...

In the not too distant past, storage was limited and expensive . As recently as 1980, 1 megabyte of disk storage cost $200. But this is no l...

It's pretty well established that Agile and Lean IT are more operationally efficient than traditional IT. Agile teams tend to commit few...

Last month we took a look at the different types of staffing in IT , using Machievelli’s book The Prince as a guide. Buyers of forces, be ...

I've spent a lot of time reflecting on Brad Cross' blog post on Wages . It got me thinking specifically about Machiavelli's boo...

My friend Bradford Cross posted an interesting blog on wages last week. It’s a great piece, particularly his comments on Henry Ford's ...

In the late 1970s, the microcomputer industry was still in its emergent stages. Microcomputers weren’t nearly as powerful as mainframe and ...

Michael Milken , the former junk bond king, has a charitable foundation. His foundation did some research a few years ago that determined t...

Up to this point in this series on Restructuring IT , we’ve looked at how IT has adopted an industrial model. IT has achieved scale, but at ...

October is normally a heads-down month. In addition to being in the home stretch of meeting our yearly objectives, we must dedicate cycles t...

In previous installments of this series on restructuring IT , we looked at how IT has adopted industrial practices as it has gone in pursuit...

By going in pursuit of scale, we’ve created an IT function that is “too big to fail” in many businesses. Companies depend on IT – many can’t...

The relationship between IT and its business partners is notoriously bad. Year after year, surveys by different research organizations repor...