One of the blogs that I follow is Walker Royce's blog  If you don't know Walker, I'd encourage you to check this blog out.  He writes on a variety of interesting topics and provides some interesting perspectives which usually hit some nerves .... and spark some great discussions.  

His post today is the start of a series that I thought members of this community might be interested in reading.  The series is based on a paper Walker and Murray Cantor are writing.  The working title is Economic Governance of Software Delivery.  I've heard both Walker and Murray talk about right-sized governance for several years ... so I'm looking forward to learning more. 

Quick preview from his blog ...

Agility without objective governance cannot scale, and governance without agility cannot compete. Agile methods are mainstream and software enterprises are adopting these practices in diverse delivery contexts. IBM’s broad industry experience and deep internal know-how points to three key principles to deliver sustained measurable improvements in software business outcomes with higher confidence:

1. Plan and predict using Bayesian analytics  (If you're like me, you might have to break out Wikipedia or an old Prob and Stats textbook  ... and I was a Math major)
2. Measure change and minimize overhead
3. Steer using economic governance

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Marcações:  transformation software governance rational agile economic alm murray-cantor walker-royce ibm