Turbulence, IT and The New CIO

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. I just completed reading The Upside of Turbulence: Seizing Opportunity in an Uncertain World. Great book.  Go buy it…the link above is an affiliate link or just go grab one … Read more

Big ideas vs Little ideas

Would you rather have one great big idea or tons of little ideas? Me?  I’m fond of having a lot of little ideas. Why?  Little ideas are easier to understand, easier to fund and easier to implement. Little ideas can be brought to life with less effort when compared  to the great big idea.  A … Read more

Agility & Business

Michael Hugos had a really good post on CIO.com titled “Agility Means Simple Things Done Well, Not Complex Things Done Fast” that provided the best definition of “agility’ that I’ve found.  He writes: Experience shows me (again and again) that agility is not about working fast but about finding elegantly simple solutions to business problems. … Read more

Agile Project Management and Product Strategy – A Case Study

Due to the length of this post, I’ve created a PDF version for those that would like to download it and/or print it out. Click here for the PDF version of Agile Project Management & Product Strategy. Over lunch recently, a good friend and very experienced project manager shared his thoughts on managing software development … Read more