Will ITIL survive Agile and DevOps?

ITIL is the gold standard for running IT departments in most large companies. ITIL is in many ways geared towards limiting and managing change. But how can managed change with long lead times be compatible with an outside world that changes ever faster? Can ITIL and agile change co-exist? Continue reading

4 myths about software development productivity

Greger Wikstrand and Joakim Lindbom talk about software development productivity.

There is no conflict between speed and quality! That was the header for lesson one of your relearning program. You want to improve software development productivity in yourself, your team or your organization? Then follow me along and debunk a few myths.

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My social media influence

Just met with Greger Wikstrand, Woody Zuill and Kishen Panday

We’re running a little friendly contest in Capgemini where our experts describe how using social media has worked for them. I felt this was interesting enough to share with a wider audience so here you go.

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The future of Enterprise Architecture

Boston John Hancock Tower

When Casimir Artmann posted a blog post about the role of Enterprise Architecture in a world that changes ever faster, some of the comments were about “IT” not being mature like other disciplines with a distinct “engineering” and “science” branch such as Chemistry or Biology – and even that is…

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Hiring team members

There are so many questions when it comes to hiring new team members and forming a team.

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Hangouts with Greger Wikstrand and friends

So far, I have done three public hangouts with friends in different places. I’ve created a playlist with all of them for your convenience.

At this time, there are three YouTube videos in the playlist, one for each of the hangouts I’ve done so far. You will find two videos where I discuss agile and lean contracts with Jacopo Romei and one video where I discuss agile retrospectives with Mario Lucero.

The playlist will be expanded with each future hangout. Will my next hangout be with you? Let me know and we’ll set it up. 🙂

Budget for Technical Debt Reduction

If you do not take care of technical debt reduction, you will end up like this house.

The foolish man builds his house on loose sand but the rains and the winds will crash it. (Matthew 7:24-27) Things have not changed that much in the last two thousand years. Technical debt remains a major challenge for software development teams.

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Adding video

The room has been setup for recording session 3.

Ever since I started blogging properly – over ten years ago – it’s been all about text with the exception of a few images. Then, not so long ago, a customer remarked that he never read anything longer than five or so sentences. It was a useful reminder that we…

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Introduce Agile – the quick fix to a slow team!

A team rowing the boat.

What happens if you only focus on making the team agile? Be careful what you ask for – you might just get it! Whenever I face a new organization trying to implement Agile as a work method, a specific question always strikes me; “Why do you want to move towards…

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What I learned from chopping wood

A lumberjack is chopping wood.

When I moved to a farm, three years ago, I thought I would be able to take what I had learned from consulting and agile and apply it to farming. I soon found out that I was wrong. The true lessons were not in what I could re-apply in farming…

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