Business coaching. Career coaching. Communication. Executive coaching. MBTI & AUTRES TESTS. Leadership coaching. Self-leadership blog. Welcome to Forbes. Thoughtworks Live 2011 – Continuous Deployment. On May 23, 2011 in Events by Steve Morgan I spent a very informative time last Wednesday at the first day of this year’s ThoughtWorks Live event. The conference was videoed, so I guess TW will be making the conference material available in due course. Here’s my take on what was presented: Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Organisational Agility Presented by Cyndi Mitchell, MD of ThoughtWorks Studios, she did a great job, apparently stepping in for Jim Highsmith at the last moment and presenting a good overview of current thinking on how agile principles can be applied to more than just the development and project management functions.
She covered goals and constraints, highlighting the choice a business should make between responsiveness and efficiency, suggesting that one should be the primary goal and the other a constraint. There’s an increasing amount of good material appearing in this space (eg. Done Agile. Implementing Beyond Budgeting: Unlocking the Performance Potential. Iacocca Institute. Business Oriented Skills - Effective Business Solutions.
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