Friday, March 30, 2012

Dependencies on agile projects - who needs 'em?

I don't want to manage dependencies; in fact, I don't want to have any dependencies. Is that even realistic? On smaller efforts I think it might be possible. Lately I've been working on large programs with 50 or more people on the project, with multiple teams and many times multiple companies involved. Here dependencies are a reality.

Monday, March 26, 2012

The Golden Rule & Golden Rule Jones

I recently read a description of Samuel Milton Jones, who was born in 1846 in North Wales. He immigrated to the United States and ended up starting an oil company where his management style was clearly well ahead of his time.

Monday, March 12, 2012

Agile on COTS projects (for example: Siebel)

Over the past few years I've heard people say - you can't use agile when doing a package implementation, such as Siebel. Does that make sense? Does agile work when building a Siebel CRM or Loyalty system implementation?