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Cutter Fellow Ron Blitstein, Piet Ribbers, and I have just finished a new book, due out in April.
I often get questions from management and teams about how many ScrumMasters they will need as an organization, how many product owners are sufficient, how many QA professionals they need, and so on. I think the better question concerns the number of nondeveloper, value-providing friends an Agile team needs and then finding a continuum to answer the question at the enterprise level.
At the beginning of each year, Cutter asks us consultants to forecast what the next big thing will be in our respective fields. (Read the 2014 predictions.) This year's request got me thinking what the next big thing in enterprise architecture was likely to be. At first I was stumped. For the last four or five years, "business capability" has been the most talked about addition to the EA repertoire.
Any position in any organization can be broken down into roles and responsibilities -- or a clear set of "jobs" the person must perform. Each job can be further broken down into a set of tasks -- sometimes complex, sometimes simple. Yet, to maximize productivity, these tasks are the first things we want to encourage our staff to find ways to eliminate.
The use of Hadoop in support of data warehousing and BI analytics efforts is still a relatively new development for many mainstream businesses. Some organizations, however, are implementing Hadoop in order to supplement their data warehousing and BI environments with its extreme processing capabilities.
One of the benefits of having worked in both product management and technology for over 35 years is that you gain a certain perspective. We live in an endless stream of invention. It seems as though everything is new. But to the astute, the observant, even in an explosion of discovery, patterns emerge.
Among the most intriguing books about leadership I've read in the last year was David Marquet's Turn the Ship Around, in which Marquet -- a submarine captain of the US Navy -- describes how he turne