A common dilemma facing businesses is ‘How can we develop the next big thing if we have to continue supporting our current offerings?’. After all it’s our current offerings and its customers that are paying the bills and we can’t ignore that can we?!? [...]
With a successful agile pilot under our belt, we were ready to scale up our transition. But where do we start? One company I had been involved with tried to do it by combining the transition effort with a big, hairy product deliverable - a refresh of our technology platform. They brought in an external development shop who were very well versed in Agile. [...]
Just how do you start a transition to Agile? In the words of a wise Agile coach, “Let’s run an experiment!” The most important thing we realized was not to get it perfect through analysis paralysis before we started but rather… JUST START and course correct along the way! In hindsight, makes a lot of sense to … Continue reading Let’s Run An Experiment
It was an amazing ride! I was given a mandate: 1. Increase speed to market 2. Achieve cost efficiency No problem! The company was in the online recruitment space, had incredible brand recognition and was well funded. Problem was they had an antiquated product development [...]
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