“We Don’t Need Another Hero” by Tina Turner, is the theme song to the 1985 movie, “Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome”. The story is based in post-apocalypse Australia and features Mad Max, the protagonist in a series of Mad Max films, a lone...
Clearly knowing what to measure and how to communicate and utilize the learnings are challenges for Agile success in today’s data rich environments. In the webinar 4 Communication Strategies for Agile Success, Agile expert Bhavani Krishnan and...
In the typical, dynamic Agile environment there are two constants - conditions change and decision need to be made based on these changes. If decision-making authority is too centralized, decisions can be delayed and ill-informed. Conversely,...
Press Release - xScion Solutions (xScion) was recently named as one of the 2019 Best Places to Work in Virginia, an annual award list created by Virginia Business and Best Companies Group.
We all can identify with this scenario: a delay causes us to start our commute 10 minutes late. The timing of the late start adds 30 minutes to our commute, and we end up missing an important meeting.
John G. Saxe’s poem, “The Blind Men and the Elephant,” based on the famous parable, is an example of how the individual perspective can differ from the big picture perspective. In the poem, six blind men seek to learn about an elephant. Since...
The other day I read an article in Information Week magazine titled, Capital One CIO: We’re a Software Company. I don’t think it’s any surprise that for a while now, Capital One has distinguished itself from competitors and other large...
One of the most common challenges for organizations on the Agile journey is navigating the gap between adoption and transformation. For example, a football play can look great on the chalkboard and the concept may be a winner, but it won’t go...
During the Dot-com era the talent pool was so scarce we used to joke that the technical screening process was reduced to having the candidate breathe on a mirror, and if they could fog it, they were hired. That is a slight exaggeration, but they...
