January, 2009

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Come the Hour, Come the Leaders

The Agile Manager

Earlier this week, I published an article called Come the Hour, Come the Leaders in alphaITjournal.com. In it, I point out the acute need for business leadership in today's economic environment and identify six things we can do today to act on a leadership agenda. Today's Financial Times brought some reinforcement to those messages in the first of a four-part series called Managing in a Downturn.

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The Agile PMO: Results-Based Execution

The Agile Manager

In the last installment we took a look at why it’s important that project gatekeepers be consistent in terms of effort and results. To understand how we can execute on this, we need to take a look at how teams are organized and execute. How we organize determines how effectively we can define results-oriented “gates." Traditionally, IT teams have organized in silos , working on abstract slices of the business goal (as opposed to the end-to-end).

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