The Transformation Blog

Sadly, for many companies today, Agile is in the trough of disillusionment.  Why?  Simple -- the support needed to foster success from Agile practices requires deep, engaged cooperation to work differently across a number of enterprise departmental silos.  For those familiar with Moneyball, Billy Beanes found himself in exactly the same situation during the 2002 rebuilding season

I was watching Moneyball this weekend for the first time and was riveted by the story of Billy Beanes and the Oakland A’s miracle of 2002. I’m not much of a baseball fan (I grew-up and live in the heart of ”tobacco road” where college basketball is king) so I was only superficially aware of Billy’s bold, perhaps reckless move in 2002 to pursue an unproven, unorthodox approach to building a championship baseball team.

I won't recount the film's entire storyline, but the basics go like this--Team wins big one year, loses talent the next, due to free agency, and “rich teams” like the

Over the last year Gear Stream’s larger clients have increasingly sought to learn and apply methods to business and software innovation that are more commonly found in scrappy, modern, software start-ups.  The latest trend emerging from the software start-up community is LeanUX.  In this and future articles I’ll be exploring the key concepts behind LeanUX and their potential application to those doing software and innovation work in larger companies.