More than ever, companies are under pressure to be more productive and effective.
Yet it seems inevitable: as your company grows, so does complexity, leading to inefficiencies.
Is this complexity truly inevitable?
Read MoreRadical Simplification
Organization
Industry
Industry, Season 2, Episode 8, “Jerusalem”
Simply put, Agile is dead. Then again—is it?
It all began with a group of independent-minded software professionals who got together to “talk, ski, relax, and try to find common ground.” They agreed on a common set of values in the pursuit of better ways of developing software, published them on a website, and so the “manifesto for agile software development” was born.
This was 2001.
Read MoreAgile Industrial
Want Agile? No two ways about it, there are only two ways to go: Native or Industrial. Go another way and, sure enough, your quest for “agility” will yield . . . anything but.
Of the two ways, the Native way is the best place to start. After all, it’s what Agile has been all about—until now.
Read MoreChief Agility Officer
Alois Ruf and Melvin Conway agree: design by committee doesn’t work. If you want great, it takes one person’s vision, the character to stay true to an idea, and the persistence to make it happen.
Listen to Alois Ruf on Jay Leno’s Garage:
Jay Leno: “To me, the best cars are always one person’s vision. When I was growing up, it was Duesenberg, it was Porsche, it was W. O. Bentley, it was Gordon Murray, it was yourself—people who have one idea of what it should be, and they are usually right! Cars designed by committee, uh…”
Alois Ruf: “Committees don’t work. It takes one head, and [they have] to be persistent to make it happen.”
Design by committee doesn’t work, and Melvin Conway agrees.
Melvin Conway wrote a paper in 1967: “How Do Committees Invent?” The gist of it became known as Conway’s Law.
Read MoreAgile at Scale Using Containers
Agile doesn’t jibe with big, so the big question is: how do you scale Agile?
The good news is, Agile is common sense, not rocket science.
You can be Agile in a big way when you move beyond the basics and pay attention to three things:
- Organization as a whole,
- Organization using containers,
- Container integration.
