Has Agile Gone Too Far with Employee Happiness?

While those of us in the Agile community have for years fostered the values of employee empowerment and creating productive work spaces for our employees and teams, I’m increasingly bothered by the degree to which some Agile advocates place employee happiness above nearly everything else. Is this the key to business and innovation success as Continue

Agile Without UX Is Not An Option

Two of the most profound trends over the past 10 years driving software innovation are Agile software development and Human centered design (often known as UX in software circles), yet these trends have often moved independent of one another, or worse, been at odds. First, let’s do a quick review of what we mean by Continue

RIM (Blackberry) – Another Agile Adopter Sinking Fast

While many took exception to my last article on the demise of Nokia, I will continue to raise the question on the relationship between Agile software/product development promises and the real world results of companies championing Agile values and methods. RIM is the latest example in what is surely not the last of a company that Continue

Nokia Demise: Chapter Two – Agile Debate

My last blog article incited a riot among the Scrum purists.. Well, maybe not a riot, but it certainly invoked emotions and passions which I love… but what I don’t love is how the Scrum faithful are increasingly resistant to critical thought and debate… so let me attempt to clarify my motives and objective in writing Continue