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Software has been a crucible of management practice. Developing software requires a wide mix of types of work from mostly routine to highly innovative. For that reason, there is no one-size-fits-all solution to software development. While Agile does not fully solve the development management problem and is still evolving, there are important lessons we can learn from Agile principles for a wide range of business practices.
April 22, 2016 | Authored By: Murray Cantor
For reasons I don't quite understand, I have often been called on to determine whether an organization should turn off life support on some major,
February 29, 2004 | Authored By: Ken Orr
Jim Brosseau explains that culture and leadership are connected by the form in which power is wielded in an organization. He uses John R.P. French and Bertram Raven’s five forms of power (coercive, reward, legitimate, expert, and referent) to show how these forms result in certain leadership processes and company culture. Brosseau then uses the Lift-Slab Organizational Model to show why organizations in an unpredictable environment must have a participatory structure and a project-centric approach to succeed.
March 18, 2022 | Authored By: Jim Brosseau
Transcending software development, this Executive Report outlines fundamental reasons for the popularity of Agile, the risks associated with the subjective element of Agile, and how to balance the flexibility with planning through a well-established Composite Agile Method and Strategy (CAMS).
February 4, 2014 | Authored By: Bhuvan Unhelkar
Currently, software systems in the healthcare domain are not sufficient to alleviate this crisis. Most of those systems are not extensible or scalable, and they have little interoperability. In this article, I will show how IT analysis methods can help alleviate the crisis by providing tools to build IT software systems that will reduce cost and complexity in the healthcare domain.
April 29, 2014 | Authored By: Andre Leclerc