Culture, People and Systems Part II
A few weeks ago I posted about the relationship between organizational culture types defined by William Schneider in ‘The Re-Engineering Alternative” and MBTI types and temperaments. My theory is that as a change artist, whether it be an external or internal coach, can you increase the odds of creating a successful change by understanding these factors: organizational culture type type and temperament of the influential people or ‘change sponsor’ flow of power...
Read MoreTurns out being Agile IS all About Culture
I attended a great session on Agile vs Traditional last night with the Toronto Agile group and while there weren’t many traditional folks there, the session helped validate much of what I believe is the most important aspects of ‘becoming agile’. The panel included Mishkin Bertieg, Scott Ambler, Colin Doyle, Orhan Kalayci and Winifred Menezes and you can see details and bios of these folks here. Although the even was supposed to be a shootout between traditional vs agile...
Read MoreCraftmanship over crap?
Uncle Bob (A.K.A Bob C. Martin) posted an interesting thought about his keynote from Agile 2008. The idea was a metric for code quality as measured in “WTF’s per second”. That is, during a code review, how many times you see code that makes you say “What the F***?” I like that idea, but I don’t agree with the proposed 5th Agile Manifesto Statement “Craftsmanship over crap” or “Craftmanship over Execution”. Like all Agile...
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