agile – Owen McCall Consulting Limited

07/05/202207/20/2022Blog

Being Agile vs Doing Agile

In the year 2000 agile was fairly universally agreed to mean being “able to move quickly and easily”. Then in February 2001 a group of 17 software developers got together and penned the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. On the surface of it the four values and twelve principles contained in the manifesto make good sense. What’s more a number […]

05/24/201807/20/2022Blog

Transitioning to Agile? Begin by Preparing the Environment.

I have had lots of conversations lately with CIOs and Senior IT leaders about moving to agile. There was a CIO who has invested heavily in training and support for their team, but is experiencing push back on agile practices from the executive who still expect business cases and predefined scope and benefits. A long term industry colleague who is […]