If you are running a business today, you probably incorporate digital elements in your products and services. At the very least, you employ digital technology in the operation of your business. It’s likely that you have adopted an Agile framework and possibly even DevOps processes. It’s also likely that you are not getting the productivity boost from it that you should. Continue reading
In the previous article we discussed Waterfall, WaterScrumFall, big-A Agile and business agility. Dissonance abounds among organizations struggling to transition their approaches to building solutions and maintaining their existing legacy infrastructures while remaking how they evolve themselves. In attempting to navigate this they often adopt approaches that are destined not to really get them where they need to be. Continue reading
We should all be aware by now that business agility is the primary enabler for companies seeking sustainability. In the past, companies would evolve in chunks, a project at a time. The costs and risks of implementing change, whether system-related or otherwise, were large, so designing and planning upfront (the Waterfall approach) was applied to create predictability and moderate risks. Continue reading
In the Beginning . . .In days of yore, systems development projects were front ended with laborious requirements engineering and design tasks. This made sense then because development was labor-intensive, time-consuming and expensive. Changes to the scope or design of a solution mid-development increased the likelihood of errors and incremental time and expense. In recognition of this, traditional Waterfall project management was applied, which created impediments to modifying the product definition once its development had begun. Changes were strenuously resisted. Continue reading
In the previous articles in this series, we discussed the role that agile digital delivery capabilities plays in your company’s competitiveness and why rapid delivery is so important. In this article, we will look at the many reasons that Agile adoptions frequently fail to deliver what companies expect and suggest some things that you should do to address them. Continue reading