The other day, I was reminded of this quote from Henry Ford: “It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages.” And he’s exactly right, whether the customer is the people who buy your organization’s products and services or whether the customer is the […]
Is your SABSA stuck in the mud?
During the research I did last year reaching out to SABSA practitioners, one of the things that kept coming up over and over again was that people were having a really hard time trying to get started with SABSA in their own environments. And this isn’t just with people who take the course and try […]
Why Agile’s “people over process” works…sometimes
If you ask most people new to Agile (yes, there are still some of those around), and especially if they’ve been slogging it out in the trenches of long, grueling projects…and especially in the public sector arena, you’ll get an almost universal reaction: “Hell yeah! No more f—-ing process!” And it’s kinda understandable, because process […]
It’s like Viagra for flaccid agile security
Some years ago, one of the founding fathers of the Agile Manifesto, Andy Hunt, wrote about how the Agile movement had sort of lost its way. One of the reasons he cited was the proliferation of a disease he called “flaccid agile”. Flaccid agile is where you cherry-pick some of the principles and practices you […]
Got Agile?
There’s a lot of talk about Agile these days. Everyone’s doing it—well, almost everyone. And those who aren’t are a particular shade of green with envy and full of laments, remorse and frustration as to why they can’t be agile too. But here’s the thing about “agile”…it’s the thing that applies to quite a lot […]
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