The Future of Work and Professions: CIO to COO to CEO
A recent Wall Street Journal article, entitled Coronavirus Pandemic Helps Speed More CIOs Toward Business Operations Accountability, observed: “Large businesses are starting to hold their chief...
View ArticleThe Education Industrial Complex and The Future of Work
In a previous article I explored how workers and employers should approach the future and opined that both would be better off if they each understood the motivations and tactics that the other would...
View ArticleThe Education Industrial Complex: The Hammer We Have
In a recent NY Times feature article, Noam Scheiber provided a pretty thorough picture of the mid-to-longer term economic challenges we’re facing and some of the alternative policies that the Biden...
View ArticleA Conversation with Howard M. Wiener, MSIA, CERM, PMP About Agile 2
Interviewed by Greg Hutchins, PE, CERM Iterative software development approaches have been around since the 1950s but many mark the beginning of what is commonly thought of as Agile as the creation of...
View ArticleWhy You Need Multi-Disciplinary, Integrated Risk Management
This article is excerpted from my upcoming book Agile Enterprise Risk Management: Risk-Based Thinking, Multi-Disciplinary Management and Digital Transformation. The book provides a framework for...
View ArticleWhat is Agile Enterprise Risk Management?
As you may know, I am pretty close to completing my first book Agile Enterprise Risk Management, Risk-Based Thinking, Multi-Disciplinary Management and Digital Transformation. It is now at the...
View ArticleA Framework for Understanding Transformation–Part I
Introduction In Agile Enterprise Risk Management, Risk-Based Thinking, Multi-Disciplinary Management and Digital Transformation I focus on several topics tied to transformation. The overarching...
View ArticleA Framework for Understanding Transformation–Part II
In Part I of this series, we discussed the VUCA environment in which business are operating and the impact this has had and will continue to have on how businesses are run, discussed the need for...
View ArticleA Framework for Understanding Transformation–Part III
In the previous article, I discussed three models of your company that should inform and guide your efforts to transform: the four-level Logical Model, the Enterprise Architecture model and the...
View ArticleAgile, Agile 2 and Agility, Part I
If you are running a business today using Agile methods, it’s likely that you are not getting the productivity boost from it that you should, and your time to market for new features is probably not...
View ArticleAgile, Agile 2 and Agility, Part II
In the previous article in this series, we discussed the difference between Agile and business agility and how Agile 2 addresses some of the omissions and failings of traditional Agile. Both Agile and...
View ArticleWhy Agile Often Fails and What to Do When It Happens
Agile, Agile 2 and Agility, Part III In the previous articles in this series, we discussed the role that agile digital delivery capabilities plays in your company’s competitiveness and why rapid...
View ArticleIs Detailed Design Anti-Agile?
In the Beginning . . . In days of yore, systems development projects were front-ended with laborious requirements engineering and design tasks. This made sense then because development was...
View ArticleCan Starting with Waterfall Lead to Better Agile? Part I
Waterfall, WaterScrumFall, Agile and Agility We should all be aware that business agility is the primary enabler for companies seeking sustainability. In the past, companies would evolve in chunks, a...
View ArticleCan Starting with Waterfall Lead to Better Agile? Part II
In my previous article, I discussed Waterfall, WaterScrumFall, big-A Agile, and business agility. Dissonance abounds among organizations struggling to transition their approaches to building solutions...
View ArticleThe Two Types of Agility You Need
If your business is going to survive, you must be able to read and react to changes in your markets and continuously improve your competitive position. It’s more important now than it’s ever been....
View ArticleUkrainian Success Through the Lens of Agile
The world is watching the war Russia is waging against the Ukrainians. Most of it applauds how the Ukrainians adapt to a rapidly evolving environment and occasionally prevail. This article describes...
View ArticleWhat is Enterprise Agility?
I have done a lot of writing recently about these many referents and the Agile 2 Academy, with whom I am currently working. I’ve stressed the importance of attaining what I have been calling Business...
View ArticleReady, Fire, Aim: the Path to Agility
Ready, Fire, Aim is often used disparagingly to describe how incompetent operators perpetrate disastrous projects on the dime of the companies for which they work. Such people become attached to ideas...
View ArticleSolution vs. Product-Implications for Agile Development
A Solution is Not a Product Solution, Deliverable, Product, Work Product and other terms are often used interchangeably to describe output from development initiatives. However, there are some...
View ArticleEver-Successful vs. Never-Successful: What the NFL Has to Teach Us About...
A few days ago, I responded to a post on LinkedIn about how Google seems to always find a way to keep ahead of the pack, even when someone of importance leaves the company. It occurred to me that NFL...
View ArticleExploding vs. Imploding: What the NFL Has to Teach Us About Managing Agile...
In the previous article, we looked at two Ever-Successful NFL teams, the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers, who seem to be able to win consistently even while things change around them and...
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