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In my struggles and learnings as a social business practitioner I occasionally deliver social media workshops to share my experiences and knowledge with others (well, at least have delivered two of those to date).   So according to  Jakob Nielsen , a user experience guru, the 90-9-1 rule prevails. The rule says that in most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action. The 1% can have a great impact on the 90% (for example, the hotels that... [More]

How do Agile practices impact IT operations?   Agile practices can provide organizations with great benefits: more customer collaboration leading to a better overall product, a unified development team that is generally more productive, innovative and just plain happier and finally can help organizations deliver software/solutions faster than ever before, beating the competition leading to increased market share and at the end of the day increases revenue.  But time to market is only as fast as the weakest link in the overall software delivery... [More]

I'd like to welcome everyone to our new Agile Transformation Zone community.   I say community ... right now, while there is some great initial content .. the community part is just getting started. It's like we've just built a brand new house and the family hasn't moved in.   As we all know, just like a house is not a home, this community space is only a space.   It's the people that make a community work.    My experience with building communities over the last several years indicates that you need 2 types of members (actually, you can break... [More]

 Healthcare is a complex industry requiring compliance with numerous regulations.   With Agile practices focusing on frequent iterations and an emphasis on working software over comprehensive documentation, Some might question whether Agile can be effective in delivering software for such a complex environment.  I recently watched a webcast that dispels any myths that Agile cannot work for healthcare.  In the webcast, Kim Werner, Agile Coach from ATSC and Liz Parnell, Solution Design Manager from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina... [More]

If you're thinking about embarking on the journey of agiletransformation you should be clear about why you want to become agile. The goalof being agile is to handle change. How would you handle change which, by theway, is often of the unexpected variety? At the very least you would not fallapart and stop operating. However it would be more desirable that youcapitalize on it. As jazz trumpeter, Miles Davis, said, "There are nomistakes in jazz--only opportunities." If you're working in an environment in which everything isroutine, every... [More]

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