Business Technology Blog with the Telegraph
Business Technology Blog with the Telegraph
I’m now writing a blog (gratis, in case you’re wondering) for the Business Technology supplement distributed with the Telegraph (UK national newspaper). I expect my posts will appear fortnightly.
Unlike this Think Different blog, my Business Technology blog aims aiming to serve entirely non-technical (non-software savvy) managers and executives, in an attempt to bridge the gap between the worlds (and world-views) of business and technology.
The first post sets the scene for e.g. future Rightshifting pieces, by drawing folks’ attention to the major advances we have seen – and made happen – in the software development field over the past decade or so, since the Agile Manifesto. Key themes in the post include:
“It’s All About The People”
“Software Development is Just Part of a Bigger System”
“The Key Problems Are Often Outside of Software Development”
“Focus on Flow”
List of posts
For ease of reference, I’ll keep a running list of posts here:
- Lessons From the Software Senseis
(19 October 2012)
What software development practitioners have learned over the past decade. - The World is Round
(2 November 2012)
How our view of the world of work dictates the effectiveness of our organisations. - The Change Paradox
(15 November 2012)
The paradox of trying to change people’s behaviour. “Push” doesn’t work. - The Value in Emotion
(29 November 2012)
How does the idea of emotion having value make you feel? - Incidental Autonomy
(18 December 2012)
How organisations seem to take on a mind of their own.
– Bob
Think Different
Congrats on your new endeavor Bob!
Bridging the worlds is a tricky task, sometimes because the distance can look much bigger than it really is. Certainly it can be difficult to get people to accept low tech solutions to high tech problems.
One problem the agile community has is that by dressing up some old ideas in new terminology, it can put people off as often as it draws them in.
I recently tried to persuade someone that Jerry Weinberg was the “secret godfather of agile”. I don’t think he was completely convinced. However, when I read a quote like “It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it” (from ‘Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method’) I think I might have been on to something after all.