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Delta: Corporate Social Media Done Right

In my latest Cortex newsletter I referred to “tone deaf” corporations who have flexible technology like corporate social media in place, but lack the organizational flexibility to use it properly.

The Paradox of Self-Organizing Teams

What?s wrong with this scenario? Bob, your VP of Engineering brings a ScrumMaster, a Java developer, a UX (user experience) specialist, and a Linux admin into his office. ?We need

A Good Architect Is Like a Good Parent

Parenting is perhaps the most difficult job any of us is likely to have in our lifetimes, and we earnestly do our best as a rule. And yet, some parenting

Skewering Some Buzzword Baloney

Making up new words for old concepts – or using old words for new concepts – goes on all the time in the world of marketing, so you’d think we’d

Architecture Technical Debt: The Curse of Agile?

Nowhere is the poor architect?s quest for respect more difficult than on Agile development teams. Even when Agilists admit the need for architecture, they begrudgingly call for the bare minimum