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One Size Does Not Fit All, Part IV

Posted April 2, 2015 | Technology |

We concluded Part III of our series "One Size Does Not Fit All" discussing horizontal flow in vertically siloed organizations (see Figure 1). In such organizations, both the flow of data and the flow of decisions across the silos might not be fast enough to satisfy the needs of the enterprise. The project teams may well be frustrated with the speed of the decisions that impedes their ability to deliver. An overly burdensome approval process leaves them powerless to improve.

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Israel Gat
Dr. Israel Gat is an expert in Agile and Lean methods, devops, software governance, technical debt and technical due diligence. He served as Cutter Fellow and the Director of the Agile Product Management & Software Engineering Excellence practice from 2008 until 2015, and now splits his time between consulting and writing. Dr. Gat has received many accolades from clients, such as “His approach is the only one I’ve found that actually works… Read More
Murray Cantor
Murray Cantor has been a leader for over 30 years, applying leading-edge ideas in software and systems development. Currently, Dr. Cantor is CTO of Aptage. Recently, he served as an IBM Distinguished Engineer, a member of the Rational CTO Council, and the Rational Lead for Analytics and Optimization for Software and Systems, where he led the application of predictive analytics to software and systems planning/development as well as adapting Lean… Read More
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