If, like me, you’ve been gripped by the Moon landing 50th anniversary coverage, you’ve probably been struck by how calmly the Apollo 11 team dealt with the stuff which went wrong, given the wafer-thin margins and mortal risks they faced. If, like me, you’re an IT person, you’ve probably also noticed how much of the… Read More
The Mythical 0.025% Baby: Where Agile Went Wrong
I’ll come clean, that title is a bit like ‘Free Beer Here!’ or ‘Build the Wall!’ It’s intended to draw you in and provoke a response, without necessarily having any basis in rationality. I’m certainly not about to tear into Agile and start advocating a return to the dark days of interminable waterfall projects and… Read More
Hokey Cokey Management and the Anti-Legacy Legacy
During my years in IT management, I heard more than enough cynical responses to the regular round of strategic changes handed down from on high. One hardy perennial was ‘What goes around comes around’; the view that these changes never took us forwards but simply circled us back to somewhere we’d been before. In the… Read More
Nick Teale 