How CIOs can ensure their company is “future fit”
by 0 A Chief Information Officer’s (CIO) job is not just to look after the organisation’s current information technology operational needs, but also to create an organisation …
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Not another mind-numbing Purpose statement
by 0 How to make Purpose matter In his book Drive, Dan Pink clarified the distinction between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, and distilled the 3 primary drivers …
A Step-by-Step, Curated Reading List for New Ways of Working
by 1 # Description 001 Start with Steve Denning’s Forbes article on “Why Managers hate Agile”. It is a great introduction to the Agile Management Philosophy. …
Where are the women in tech?
by 5 In the context of discussing Josef Langerman’s online IT management course, he asked me “only about 10% of readers [of the course] are female. You …
Software engineers – are they really difficult, or just different?
by 0 We’ve all heard the joke about software engineers: What’s the difference between an IT introvert and an IT extrovert? The introvert stares at his own …
10(+1) Rules for great development teams
by 4 It takes great leadership to build great development teams. In this post we look at the rules for great development teams. The rules may seem …
Servant Leadership as Leadership Engine to Power Agile IT
by 0 One of the buzzwords in the agile community is Servant Leadership. When Standard Bank embarked on their implementation of agile-at-scale, we needed to understand if …
How IT can cure joblessness
by 0 South Africa is apparently at the edge of an abyss. Slow growth and poverty are a scourge on this beautiful land. At the root of this …
Why motivation of people needn’t be confusing
by 1 Psychologists Maslow, Hertzberg and McGregor studied motivation in the 1960’s. Their work constitutes a sound foundation for today’s leaders.