Agile
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Your Innovation Pilots Are a Graveyard.
Time to Stop, Bury them with a distinct Ceremony. Most innovation pilots in large organisations are not experiments. They are expensive theatre. A team is assembled, a budget is allocated, a vendor is selected, and a steering committee is formed. Six months later, a slide deck lands in front of a board that politely nods.…
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Data Platforms and Data Lakes: Data Mesh puts Business Back in the Lead
The current method of providing data services using data lakes often leads to highly specialized, siloed teams of data engineers and business analysts. The result is complexity, limited flexibility, and a long time-to-market for data products. This can be prevented by allowing decentralized DevOps teams to develop business-driven functionality on top of central data services.…
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23 Things Engineers Say, and What They Really Mean
Engineers are a special kind of people. They play a vital role in building our disruptive, digital world. They design systems, solve complex problems, automate processes, and occasionally explain why something “should work” while everybody is looking at a broken screen. Engineers also have their own way of communicating. Over time, I noticed that what…
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Stop being so Agile !!!
Last week I visited a customer of mine. He showed me around in his new office and explained to me how his business unit was doing agile. He introduced me to agile team members and showed me around in the agile room where all four walls were covered with post-it notes. His goal for this…