Posts Tagged agile transformations
It’s an Agile Sabotage
Posted by David Bland in agile, enterprise on February 25, 2010
Agile adoptions in the Enterprise are difficult and complicated, perhaps that is why I often read stories on Top Down vs. Bottom Up techniques. I feel as though we focus too much on these and overlook the Middle, which can lead to disaster. Middle management is arguably the toughest obstacle in any large scale Agile [...]
An X on the Agile Waterfall Lifeline
Posted by David Bland in agile, waterfall on January 20, 2010
Over these last few months, I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with people across the country about their thoughts on agile transformations. In doing so, I noticed a recurring theme. We tend to categorize companies, or subsets of companies as Agile or Waterfall. At best, openly categorizing in this manner is an over simplification; at [...]

