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• Presenting the Strohlein Market Maturity Model
• 123 days ago
• Having lived with, written about, and suffered through over 20 years of information technology evolution, one challenge that never seems to go away is that of gauging when a technology is mature enough to be viable. Jumping on the wrong technology bandwagon (anyone remember client/server computing) can be costly and hazardous to one’s career. I’m a [...] ...

• Six Sigma Lunch
• 125 days ago
• I’ve run across mentions of India’s dabbawalas several times in recent years, most recently in the July 12th issue of the Economist, and remain fascinated by what this collective has achieved without technology, fancy business models, or any of the other trappings of modern businesses. Imagine an organization with 5,000 workers that makes 170,000 deliveries [...] ...

• Agile: It’s not About the Process
• 131 days ago
• A while back, I chaired a panel on agile corporate cultures and in preparation for the event, the panelists and I all talked about how we each did agile product development. What was surprising was that we all used different approaches–different iteration lengths, different approaches to creating and managing stories, different stand-up formats, etc. etc. [...] ...

• Do We Need a Recall for Ideas?
• 136 days ago
• I first discovered the phenomenon of Really Big Ideas (RBIs) as a kid, when I got my first look at an air car at the opening of Dulles Airport in 1962. The air car, for the uninitiated rode on a cushion of air and was touted as the next big thing, soon obviating the need [...] ...

• Avatars Just Want to be Free
• 140 days ago
• One of my favorite sci fi novels is Snowcrash, by Neal Stephenson in which he provides an amazingly prescient description of a virtual world called the metaverse and also popularized the term avatar as a description of virtual beings that inhabited the metaverse–that was way back in 1992–amazing stuff. Fast forward to today’s world and lo [...] ...