Moneyball’s Agile Transformation Lesson #2: Change Isn’t Free

This is the second in a series of blog articles I’m writing on how Moneyball (the movie) embodies powerful lessons for all of us seeking to innovate and transform today’s Agile collaboration models for how we conceive, build, and deliver new software and services to customers. The results are bound to produce extraordinary outcomes for all. Continue

Moneyball – Should Be Required Viewing for all CIO’s & Their Peers

This is the first of a series of Moneyball Lessons I will blog about that I believe are instructive to those of us working to foster software innovation practices that drive business success. I was watching Moneyball this weekend for the first time and was riveted by the story of Billy Beanes and the Oakland Continue

If Agile Teams Self-Manage, Do We Still Need Managers?

As the march towards broad Agile adoption in larger Enterprise companies continues, the implications for changing roles and responsibilities is significant. Companies have spent literally millions of dollars and decades training staff to master the skills and responsibilities of roles like Project Manager and Business Analyst. Scrum, the most widely adopted Agile process framework, suggests Continue

Will Bottom-Up Be the Death of Agile?

As Agile and Scrum have shown accelerated adoption within larger organizations over the last few years, many in the Agile community have already declared victory. Not only are Agile proponents suggesting Agile has “won”, but many are also using the adoption trends as proof that Bottom-Up is the “only right way” to transform an organization Continue