The Agile Manager

As I mentioned last month, many years ago I was toying around with a governance maturity model. Hold your groans, please. Turns out there ...

I’ve been writing about IT governance for many years now. At the time I started writing about governance, the subject did not attract much...

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

I’ve been writing about Agile Management for over 15 years. Along the way, I’ve written (as have many others) how to get Agile practices in...

The ultimate state for any team is self-determination: they lead their own discovery of work, self-prioritize that work, self-organize thei...

Eighteen months ago, I wrote that there is a good case to be made that the tech cycle is more economically significant than the credit cycle...

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

Last month, Rana Foroohar argued in the FT that worker productivity is declining in no small part because of shadow work . Shadow work is u...

I recently came across a box of very old technology tucked away in my basement: PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras and even a couple of o...

Southwest Airlines has made headlines in recent days for all the wrong reasons: bad weather impacted air travel, which required Southwest ...

Our favorite craft brewer has a tap room. They never have more than a dozen beers on tap. They only serve their own brewed beers, never an...

A few months ago I was asked to review a product strategy a team had put together. I had to give them the unfortunate feedback that what th...

Last year, I wrote that one of the core capabilities of an Agile manager is to "create and adapt the mechanical processes and social s...

Andy Kessler wrote in the WSJ this month about the value of being a contrarian . Contrarians have a reputation for being cynics or curmudge...

One of the benefits of being an agile organization is the elimination of IT shadows: the functions and activities that crop up in response t...

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