The Agile Manager

Every day, millions of people buy expensive things they don't know much about: cars and residential homes, enterprise software and entir...

When we think about value, we think in terms of hard measures like increasing revenue or decreasing cost, or soft measures like increasing c...

In March, we looked at questions of worth . This month, we look at "questions of value". In the dictionary, value is defined by ...

Until a few years ago, enterprise software development was pretty easy to justify and execute because the income statement was the primary c...

Price is the critical determining factor in purchasing decisions. If I want a new case for my tablet, and I know the case that I want, it...

Last month we looked at the loss of institutional memory and the reasons for it. This month, we look at our options for re-acquiring it. ...

I was queuing for a flight late last year when two people standing behind me started talking about how disappointing their trip had been. Th...

Replatforming is all the rage these days. Platforms are conceptually popular with investors: in theory, a platform makes the mundane porti...

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...

As part of my research into method earlier this year, I picked up a 1959 edition of the Scoutmaster's Handbook. The core of the philoso...

It's fashionable for a company to proclaim itself an ecosystem. A mobile phone company makes handsets for users and curates an app mark...

Last month, we looked at method as a codification of experience borne of values and expressed through rules, guidelines, practices, policie...

Last month, I went on a 6 day, 55 mile canoe trip with several friends. I last went canoe camping in the 1980s with the Boy Scouts. Being o...

A few years ago, I wrote about the chronic misuse of the word "governance" in technology . The word "portfolio" is suff...