Understanding the Nature of Self-Organizing Teams
A spider is an eight-legged arachnid that has a head attached to a central body. Pull a leg off a spider and most can still walk, even if a little lopsided. Cut off the head, and the spider dies. Not...
View ArticleAgile Managers Build Trusting Relationships with Their Teams
In First, Break All the Rules,1 management consultants Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman report that an employee’s relationship with his or her manager is key to that employee’s success and long-term...
View ArticleCommitting to Commitment in Agile Teams
“You did not finish the stories you committed to!” a product owner at a client of mine recently raged against the team. “What the hell are you doing all day long? This commitment was pointless!” And he...
View ArticleDevops: A Software Revolution in the Making?
The devops phenomenon is gaining traction in enterprises worldwide and its results have been turning heads in the business and user community. Bridging the gap between projects and operations, devops...
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Agility, Adaptability, and Alignment
It often starts as a seemingly plain training request. Having decided to go the agile route, a client would like Cutter to train a certain number of employees in one agile method or another. We collect...
View ArticleCutter IT Journal Call for Papers: Making Managerial Dashboards Meaningful
IT organizations worldwide use dashboards to provide managers with the key performance metrics they need to steer their organizations in the right direction and make important strategic business...
View ArticleAgile Frameworks: Patterns and Preparation
[All posts in this series: 1, 2, 3, 4] Continuing on the agile framework discussion that Tom and Maurizio have started… Agile frameworks are indeed something that many organizations are now...
View Article[Call for Papers] Agile Leadership: The Foundation for Organizational Agility
For well over a decade, leaders around the world have been encouraging software teams to embrace Agile development practices. The success of many of these teams has moved some leaders to extend their...
View ArticleGive Design Thinking a Thought
Design thinking is gaining popularity among managers as a means to spurring creativity in innovation and problem solving. With design thinking, multidisciplinary teams work visually to see through the...
View ArticleDo You Embrace Agility?
Traditional business and operating models are being digitally disrupted, forcing companies to quickly transition to new ways of doing business. And while not all businesses are equally at risk, every...
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