I found the following draft in my WordPress drafts folder but I never ended up publishing it. Still rings true today as much as then which wasn’t that long ago anyway.
Ah, the week of Thanksgiving! A 3 day week with many folks out of the office (Thankfully), many meetings cancelled and ironically, a chance to do real work.
I guess they are all related especially in Corporate America 2007. Perhaps its always been that way but it is certainly true today and will be as long as people need “management”. I don’t mean leadership , that is a different in my opinion but management in the form of “you will do this, and you will do it this way”You would expect Technology Development groups to operate against the grain but then again, they don’t as being part of an organization they can’t help but being negatively influenced by the inertia, politicing and pettiness that afflicts the non Tech parts.
There is NO process known to mankind that can fully redress human nature especially the most aberrant manifestations normally found in large organizations. Mind you, many large organizations are successful in spite of themselves. Size itself can be a benefit in many ways including but not limited to being able to outlast a smaller competitor, political connections that drive business to them, the perception (and reality) that they will be around in the long ter.
There is a process or series of processes under the Agile umbrella that at least can make the technical part of the organization more resembling the better parts of small organizations.
I will write more about that in the near future.
