The Agile Manager

This is a continuation of a series I left off in December 2009 on Restructuring IT. This post presents a few guiding principles to understan...

Writing in the FT's Long View column , James Mackintosh makes the point that hedge fund managers “appeared smarter than they really were...

One of the more hotly debated subjects in the recent debate on financial services reform has been the reintroduction of Glass-Stegall . Enac...

A software application is not a collection of features that create business value. It is a portfolio of business capabilities that yield a r...

There is no such thing as a "long run" in practice --what happens before the long run matters. The problem of using the notion of ...

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 ...