Category: Agile

Is this course for you? This course is for businesses that rely on complex activities requiring creativity. If your business doesn’t, or it’s fully automated, this course is not for you. Management in your case can be old-style and it will cause little damage. Why secrets? Why is this course titled The Secrets of Management?…

Why Agile transformations fail and what education has to do with it.

  This presentation explains how four ingredients are needed for a productive and effective creative activity. Software development is one of them.

When you subscribe to my newsletter using the form below, you get my free course “The Secrets of Management”. Why secrets? What is secret about management? Nothing, everything is out there to be learned. But most companies ignore these secrets or refuse to adopt them. This is good news for you. If you make an…

In 2001, a group of 17 developers met to find a common ground between many ways to make software. They conceived the Agile Manifesto. Since then, Agile has become an industry. You pay hefty sums and you get certified as Scrum Master or whatever the industry can think of.   After you have paid those fat…

Imagine you are in the process of choosing your next smart-phone. You want to be environmentally conscious and change it as few times as possible, but you have to replace it at least when it gets too slow to run your favourite applications. They become more power-hungry by the day. You start your quest for…

Imagine an architect designing an electronic circuit. It’s wonderful. Circuits like tree-lined avenues, transistors like refreshing fountains, capacitors like shopping centres full of sparkling goodies, resistors like safe tunnels and inductors like energizing attraction parks. Or maybe it’s better if we have electronic engineers design circuits, not architects. Why do train-wreck managers design the organizations…

The word deadline reminds me of uncivilised times when guards were shooting prisoners who were trespassing a line, sometimes even invisible, representing a limit beyond which there was freedom. Prisoners died for going beyond the deadline. Software projects die for managing to stay behind it. What kills projects that respect deadlines How can a project…

You get a wonderful idea for a software product. Or it may be anything high-tech. You want the world to benefit from it. You hire the best developers money can buy. In your impetuosity, you don’t consider that now you have to deal with a black hole called human motivation. You know only one way…

It’s 1841, the 5th of October. A train is flying at full speed from Worcester, Massachusetts to Albany, New York. You are the conductor. You are happily singing because you are on schedule and everything is fine. Your happiness, however, is about to morph into terror. You see a light in front of you where…