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During the past decade we have seen a great deal of pressure placed on environmental issues. There have been more restrictive emission norms, a somewhat sense of being forced to use renewable sources of energy, the emergence of passive buildings, and even green IT. Although car and building industries present signs of real change in this area, IT industry endeavors raise some concerns on whether or not IT is truly "going green." And these are not about lack of true undertakings, but rather about two trends in applied IT covering the whole stack -- from hardware to applications.
At the time of this writing, I could find no existing laws or regulations that explicitly name Big Data within them. That could change sometime in the coming months as businesses and lawmakers realize that a variety of legal protections as well as associated information security controls are necessary to protect these digital gold mines.
A colleague and friend -- Olivier Gaudin, CEO and cofounder of Sonar -- has recently shared with me his "water leak" metaphor. The water leak metaphor asserts that resolving a technical debt situation is similar to the approach you need to take when you find water on the floor of your house.
Executive Report
Agile Management Innovations: A Primer
Abstract
As we explore in this Executive Report, your agile teams might not live up to their full potential due to an inappropriate work environment. Agile management innovations (AMIs) shape the organization’s environment to unleash the full potential of agile employees.
Executive Report
Agile Management Innovations: A Primer
As we explore in this Executive Report, your agile teams might not live up to their full potential due to an inappropriate work environment. Agile management innovations (AMIs) shape the organization’s environment to unleash the full potential of agile employees. AMIs inspire innovations at the management level, providing greater success in terms of productivity, innovation, and employee retention. Agile management innovations (AMIs) help organizations work better with their agile teams and help those teams be more productive. AMIs create an environment supporting a state of flow for the employees through an emphasis on autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
Executive Summary
Agile Management Innovations: A Primer
Many companies adopt an agile approach expecting increased productivity, lower time to market, and so on. At first, everything might seem straightforward: The company learns about agile, hires an agile coach who helped with the first agile team, then the second, then the third. But somewhere between the second and third teams, things begin to go awry.
