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Nogility
Posted on April 12, 2011 | No CommentsLarge technology organizations don't simply become agile. They're either agile or not. If they're not, the path to being so is via change, often radical change at that. -
You, Sir, Are No Architect
Posted on February 23, 2011 | No CommentsYou can quote all the learning management, skills management, performance management and professional development plan statistics you want, but we all know that title misdirection thrives in large Fortune 500 companies. It's like a tapeworm in a Mexican restaurant: it is a target-rich environment. It isn't endemic to IT, but it seems to be especially pernicious in this critical field. -
Down in the Trough
Posted on October 4, 2010 | No CommentsWith a weak crop of developers and architects, I'm concerned we're growing a generation of bad IT managers, directors, VP's and CIO/CTOs. I'm afraid our next generation leadership will be more concerned with the acronyms after their names, with frameworks and methodologies, than with the actual work of IT. That is, with theory rather than delivery.
