Bureaucracies are quicker to mandate common solutions than they should be. Set common standards and require interoperability, for sure. Insist that teams achieve benchmarks and hygiene factors, but make the space for different approaches to compete within broad rules.
Innovation vs Process. Social Media Ninjas vs IT Managers. Agile vs Waterfall. A few tidbits from the fringe of recent O’Reilly’s OSCON conference caught my eye in the last week or so, and helped me think about these age-old battles in a new way. Simon Wardley‘s session takes a bit of following if enterprise IT…