Process: friend and foe

2 comments | Posted August 7th, 2010 in Customer Focus, eCommerce | Tags: , ,

In my reading this week I came across a blog post from Tom Peters entitled Strategy: War on Systems. Tom talks about “systems” within an organization and while they are developed with good intentions, they often become inhibitors to achieving the organizational mission. I talk about this very subject quite a bit on my blog also. [...]

Big Bang vs Evolution – A software look

One comment | Posted July 1st, 2010 in Agile Organization, Business Process Management, Business and IT Alignment, Ideas, eCommerce | Tags: , , ,

If you do any amount of reading today on current topics in software development you’ll find a growing community for agile development methods in addition to those using the more traditional waterfall development method. Large and/or older corporations tend to use the waterfall approach to software development because that was the standard that grew from process [...]

Pork Barrel Software

One comment | Posted March 11th, 2010 in Agile Organization, Business Process Management, eCommerce | Tags: , ,

If you have read any of my previous blog posts, you’ll know that I’m all about business process management and efficiency. For better or worse, I spend quite a bit of time thinking about how organizations produce work. A common framework for many businesses to produce software releases is to have both a capital projects and [...]