Fast-growing and larger firms today are facing unprecedented volatility and uncertainty. Worse, the imperative to innovate and exploit new opportunities in digital is where disruption and unpredictability is highest. The rate of change and uncertainty that digital has unleashed today puts those companies following centuries-old management practices at greatest risk. Management practices and organizational structures Continue
Agile in Practice: Must-have capabilities
In my last post, I talked about two of the crucial organizational capabilities for Agile’s success. Once you’ve empowered Agile teams and prioritized based on business value, here are three more capabilities to develop. 1. Establish a collaborative business and IT management framework Agile teams benefit from the pragmatic flexibility engineered into a collaboration model Continue
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
