Second Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, May 23, 2011, Waikiki, Hawaii
Agile Brazil 2011
Keynote address at Agile Brazil 2011, June 27th week, in Fortaleza, Brazil.
Unorthodox, Unconventional and the Next Decade of Agile
Paul Farmer was an unconventional doctor. Tracy Kidder (in Mountains Beyond Mountains) describes Farmer’s Haitian clinic, located in the difficult to access highlands, where Farmer often hiked hours to see a single patient or treated multiple antibiotic resistant tuberculosis patients with expensive new drugs. Farmer didn’t follow the typical public health cost-benefit approach; he treated [...]
Technical Debt Panel
“What technical debt really means to your business,” (ThoughtWorks & CAST), Thursday, February 17 6:00-8:00 pm PT. The Palace Hotel San Francisco. Delivering quality software quickly is a strategic function of your IT organization. Whether the end-users are internal or external clients, your applications enable the business to run smoothly and maintain a competitive edge. [...]
Iterative Delivery, Waterfall Governance
As agile methods become widespread in organizations, the debate over serial, waterfall life cycles versus iterative life cycles is moving from an engineering-level to an executive-level discussion. In terms of project governance, executives are interested in two things—investment and risk. They have to answer two basic questions: What is the projected value or return on [...]
Innovators, Imitators, and Idiots
In a PBS interview concerning the financial meltdown Warren Buffett commented on the natural progression of how good ideas go wrong. He called this the “three Is.” “First come the innovators, who see opportunities and create genuine value. Then come the imitators, who copy what the innovators have done. Sometimes they improve on the original [...]
Adaptive Leadership Resources
There is a wealth of good source material for agile software development, less but still quite a bit of material on agile project management, and a growing number of general management books that can contribute better understanding to agile principles. However, in general, the material on adaptive/agile/lean leadership is more limited. This blog is an [...]
About The Author
I am an executive consultant with ThoughtWorks, Inc., having spent 30-plus years’ as an IT manager, product manager, project manager, consultant, and software developer. In 2005 I was honored to receive international Stevens Award for outstanding contributions to systems development. Read more...
Affiliations
- APLN.org - Cofounder & Board Member
- Agile Alliance - Cofounder
