Servant leadership is often refereed to as a complement to a lean / agile software delivery approach. One of the traits sighted for servant leadership is to lead in a way that supports others and leadership in this context doesn’t… Read More
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Skills – What Really is Agile Coaching [presented by Geoff Watts]
Software is mostly hand built by people working in teams and good teams generally build better software more regularly. That’s a bold statement but software products that are reliable, easy to use, fast to respond and get the job done… Read More
Lean Agile Principles Deconstructed
Lean / agile software development ideas are essentially modern management methods that take a sideways view at how things can be done. Mostly the ideas within the lean / agile body of knowledge are rooted in system theory and build… Read More
Agile Business Analysis Using the Three Amigos
Good outcomes when building software features is strongly connected to having the right insight and information at the right time to help form a consensus on what to actually build. The problem with traditional requirements documents is that they typically… Read More
Collocation and What Matters to People About Workspace?
Most people involved in IT work in some kind of office if they are collocated with their team and not working from home or some other remote location. That office may be furnished in a typical modern day style or… Read More
Software 101: Understanding the Different Types of Software in the IT Landscape.
Software used to be installed on the computer in front of you, but the internet has led to cloud computing, SaaS and more. What does this mean for your business? If your business used computers 20 years ago, you might… Read More
Delivering Value in Software Projects
Features in business software typically make things quicker and less costly to do or sometimes less error prone or more accurately. For this reason the sooner features are deployed, the sooner they can be used and return their cost of… Read More
A Startup Weekend Journey to Textocracy with Founder Elizabeth Shassere
Founders come in all shapes and sizes and from all kinds of backgrounds, plus every startup company has followed a different path from inception to eventual success or otherwise. Listening to these back stories can be a great source of… Read More
Servant Leadership, What is it? How is it Different?
Generally, servant leadership isn’t well understood and many people have never even heard of the term. Without any further explanation it’s easy to think of senior employees being negatively treated or oppressed by the people they are in charge of. Even servant leadership… Read More
Software Delivery Promises You Can Keep
Building software means solving problems on a mass scale. There are technical problems, design problems, functionality problems, usability problems, deployment problems, the list is endless and ongoing. Because the time and effort needed to solve problems is generally unpredictable this… Read More