The Agile Manager

“A fishing crew may be organised and understood as a purely technical and economic means to a productive end, whose aim is only or overridin...

These drastic actions provide reassurance to creditors that big companies will do just about anything to keep their investment grade ratings...

In recent decades, what I call “metric fixation” has engulfed an ever-widening range of institutions: businesses, government, health care, K...

From the COO's perspective, the corporate IT department has hit rock bottom and they keep digging. Very little gets deployed, and the s...

The Financial Times recently ran a long article describing the breakdown of governance over the Crossrail development , the first new underg...

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...

I had an exchange with Dan North about the subject I wrote about last month, Beginner's Mind . Dan asked an interesting question: wha...

A little over a decade ago, I was part of a team introducing new practices to a 200+ person, distributed development team. A lot of people ...

As we saw in the previous posts in this series, organizations of autonomous teams can scale. Scaling requires different team characteristic...

Organizations of autonomous teams require a different set of behaviors than organizations that are run like a machine . People in a self-di...

It is easy to understand how a small organization of autonomous teams can function. When there are only a few teams, there is a small commu...

Before looking at autonomy at scale, we need a different understanding of what an organization is. This matters because the way we perceive...

Last month we defined autonomy by the classes of decisions that are devolved to the team level, specifically that the smallest organization...