Most organizations began their journey to an Agile Enterprise by focusing on the adoption of Lean-Agile practices by technology teams to the exclusion of all else. The stark reality of this approach is that implementation of technology team agility creates challenges across the entire organizational stack that can threaten success and generate conflict. Most companies 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
Nokia Demise: More Proof that Agile and Scrum Are Merely Tools, NOT Solutions
Yesterday’s dramatic announcement (link at Engadget) of layoffs and R&D cutbacks by Nokia (which has been leaking out for months) should be a sobering reality check for Agile and Scrum advocates who have exploited Agile mythology by packaging Scrum and Agile into lucrative “solutions” that can be easily purchased for those willing to whip out Continue
Scrum Is NOT the Point
Are you a Scrum-Bot? What’s that you ask? You know, Scrum-Bot… the people we program with Scrum, wind-up, put in a box-about the size of two weeks, and watch as they work furiously to complete the tasks that have been assigned inside the box, only to be asked to do it all over again in Continue
