Month: February 2010
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The Grateful Dead as strategic managers
The March 2010 issue of The Atlantic features an article called “Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead.” It’s a great read, especially the second half, which tells of the band’s innovations in organization, fan loyalty, and, perhaps counterintuitively, creating value by freely giving away their product. The success of these measures seems self evident: the…
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Groupthink and the Agile Architect
Need uber-guru types who are willing to challenge the existing groupthink on design and architecture, especially on TDD and emergent design and pair programming anti-pattern” – job post at Monster.com 2/9/2010 I stumbled upon that quote following links on the role of the architect on an agile project. Maybe one important role of the architect…