There is a massive movement of organisations moving to agile-at-scale (e.g. SAFe). Ironically, it can turn into an organisation becoming one big 'project', the opposite of what agile wants to achieve.
Category: Management and Organisation
Don’t become an Enterprise/IT Architect…
With increasing IT volumes in the world, landscape change is getting harder and harder, and we need to adapt to that fact. Upper management is very slow to adapt and the Enterprise/IT Architect/Strategist's position becomes more frustrating as a result.
Flexplekmaffia
Dit verhaal gaat over een nieuwe hype over 'Het Nieuwe Werken'. Maar we gaan eerst even ver terug in de tijd. En schijnbaar naar een volstrekt ongerelateerd onderwerp. Logisch klinkende simplistische onzin Ergens in 1999 waren 'wij' zwanger van onze…
Is Your Consultant a Parasite?
Good consultants do exist. But so do parasitic ones. This story is about why they happen and how to spot them.
Yes, 2-speed IT is real, but not like you think
The idea of 2-speed IT has been doing the rounds for a while. It is now dying. But in a different way, it is actually a really important aspect of IT.
About ‘being right’ versus ‘being heeded’
[De Nederlandse versie van dit verhaal vind je hier] About 15 years ago, someone I knew left an organisation where they had an advisory role. When they left for another job, at the farewell-party, management said the following: "With [X],…
Over ‘gelijk hebben’ versus ‘gelijk krijgen’
[The English version of this story can be found here] Een jaar of 15 geleden vertrok iemand die ik kende bij een organisatie waar zij een adviserende functie had vervuld. Ze ging ergens anders werken. Bij haar afscheid zei het…
How well does your top management understand IT?
I am proposing a way to 'measure' the 'understanding' the top of an organisation has — how capable it is of making informed strategic decisions — on a subject, e.g. legal, finance, or what is my particular interest: IT.
“Architecture in an Age of Agile” is online
I've (finally!) posted the narrated presentation of a slightly adapted version of my keynote at the Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2018: "Architecture in an Age of Agile". Both Architecture and Agile are important aspects of maximising your success in digital…
Panta Rhei — How more ‘agile’ can make you less agile
Agile and DevOps are on the rise. Hardly anyone these days defends up-front design approaches or project-based over product-based change. It seems to many that 'agile' is seen as a free pass for unlimited change. This is an illusion. Working…
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