Agility

I mentioned briefly in my last post that I was reading Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed .  I managed to navigate my way through the end of the book and wanted to record my initial thoughts about the book and about my growing p...

Finding a way to navigate our ever-changing world is challenging to say the least. We live in unprecedented times of change. We're facing more competition from across the globe and individual entrepreneurs who are leveraging the latest cloud and artificial...

JD Meier and I know and have worked with the same people. We had exchanged a few emails and were casually acquainted. Over a year ago, I was trying to start a series of articles on developer productivity, and I reached out to him for sage advice. I discovered...

My first highlight from this book is "Stability is no longer the prevalent condition of our age." That's a simple and profound truth as we must find ways to cope with the constant change we're in while simultaneously leading our organizations and families....

It's the early 1990s, and corporate cultures, and learning how to cope with increasing degrees of change, are becoming a thing. That's when Managing at the Speed of Change: How Resilient Managers Succeed and Prosper Where Others Fail was first released....

One of the more interesting questions that I get is how to get an organization to adopt agile methods. Sometimes folks frame it in terms of a problem: “I’m trying to get my organization to buy off on agile development, but they’re not convinced.” I belie...