Agile Adoption can be very difficult. We often underestimate the ability of ourselves or others to understand and adjust to change – and it is a cultural change required in order to really be successful in adopting the agile mindset.
Whether you love them or hate them, Apple has been instrumental in defining an era … and Apple would never have been anything without Steve Jobs. Here are some lessons from big Steve on how to approach life and business.
There is always some debate about the level of prescription that an organisation should wrap around Social Business software platforms like JiveSBS as they prepare for roll-out.
As well as looking at ways we can work more effectively by changing how we communicate and collaborate via social business software (such as JiveSBS), we also need to look at the physical workplace we inhabit.
As a proponent of customer-centric development efforts, agile methods, and frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, it probably comes as no surprise that I am also a big fan of story tests and test-driven development (TDD) in general.
A lot of people are very enthused with the ideas and concepts behind Agile methodologies, but are hesitant to apply them in their current situation. I often hear people talk about the “risk” involved in moving to a new way of working.
You’ve heard of software-as-a-service (SaaS)? Well, Cisco intends to offer cities as a service, bundling urban necessities – water, power, traffic, telephony – into a single, Internet-enabled utility, taking a little extra off the top of every resident’s bill.
Successful organisations are increasingly conducting Social Business, and their communities are based not on transactions, but on relationships. The principles of collaboration are just as important in an online community as they are offline.
Ah, yeah … you’ve gotta love Dilbert. Scott Adams is a genius.
With the best of intentions, many IT Managers and CIOs have inadvertently set themselves and their teams up for failure through an overly prescriptive focus on process, metrics, and best practice.
