MAXOS (MAtriX Of Services) went against SAFe a few weeks ago and made a strong showing. I presented this slideshow at Agile2014. During the presentation I highlighted up some “Debatable Points” which offer an alternative to…

My friend Brad Power has been studying IBM Watson, and he writes “Do you have some ideas, or know of someone I could talk to, with some ideas on why AI seems to be coming of age now? … I’m starting skeptical since Index spawned Applied Expert Systems, which didn’t get traction in the 1980s.”

How the software industry redefines product management is the subject of a new article on the Harvard Business Review blog by Brad Power. This article shows how continuous agile and MAXOS work by comparing Staples — a batch release shop — with…

The concept of “Fast IT” plays a small role in my continuous agile book for programmers, but it seems to be the biggest way for to discuss the new world of continuous improvement with everyone else. For example…