THE (MIXED) BLESSING OF NEXTGEN REWRITES About 10 years ago, I experienced the mixed blessing of being part of yet another nextgen rewrite project. I was guiding a team of about 25 really smart team members, part of a much larger team of about 150+ people. Our team...
IMAGINE Imagine you have just been asked to build an Agility Enablement Organization for your company. Sounds like fun, but there are some constraints you need to work within or around… There are 100+ teams with varying levels of interest in Agile You only have a...
NEW YEAR RESOLUTION So it’s a new year. New Year, new start, yadda yadda yadda… Maybe you are considering some New Year Resolutions so I wanted to invite you to take our 2017 waste-loss challenge by decreasing your Sabotagile Quotient. This challenge...
EMBARRASSING CONFESSION OK, so this will be awkward, and maybe cringe-inducing post. But we are approaching the new year. Plenty of people might be making new year resolutions. Many will be around fitness. So everyone needs to read this. I was once really impressed by...
Principles behind the SabotAgile! Manifesto We follow these principles:Our highest priority is to have resources deliver on scope, on time, on budget. Rigorously control deviation from plan to prevent resources from wriggling out of commitments & to prevent...
Manifesto for SabotAgile Software Development We are uncovering better ways of faking Agile Software development, defending the status quo, and advancing our careers. Through this work we have come to value: Defining rigorous processes with Milestones, Phase Gates,...
