The divide between builders and bureaucrats is getting exposed more than ever today. Every organization system requires people who can build stuff and folks who administer the enterprise. When the balance skews heavily towards administration, the joy of developing...
Shared Leadership and Alignment
“Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for failure of new ventures.” - Peter Drucker. Drucker uses the keywords innovation and Management to describe the core...
Surviving IT Project Cost Overruns: Portfolio Strategies & Digital Transformation
IT projects are notorious for going off track and costing much more than estimated. But how bad can it get? Following is a sobering quote from the book “How Big Things Get Done” by Prof. Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner “My database revealed that information technology...
The Agile Manifesto Principles Explained
I started my agile journey twenty years ago. At the time, I was a Java programmer and a UML modeler, and I lucked into working in an XP team. Joining an experienced XP team was uncomfortable at first. The practices were very different from what I was used to. Kent...
Technology Adoption Curve and the Chasm
Summary of takeaways from Geoffery Moore’s book, Crossing the chasm. Since its first publication in 1991, it has been a canon for marketing and sales decision-making in product management.The groups in the technology adoption cycle represent a unique psychographic...
Agile Leadership Training Experience Report
Hi! I'm Jonathan Evans, and if you're like me, you're always looking for ways to improve yourself and your skill set. I'm transitioning in my career and knew that getting Scrum Alliance Agile Leadership Training and Certification was essential to increase my...