really the essence of what we do. Complex Adaptive Systems: Fourth and last, that the business should be thought of as a community, or perhaps as a Complex Adaptive System, which needs to be led and managed greatest? Business value is destroyed only when we substitute extensive planning for execution and when we substitute execution according to plan for thinking and adapting. A Better Way to Plan: Nevertheless

the investment decision and the oversight process would form a seamless continuum wherein the execution of the initiative would yield valuable information by which the governance decision could be adjusted budget, some justifications of why we believed it was plausible, and just enough description of the execution team and its process to convince the Star Chamber that the team was capable. Then, we did something

delivery for large numbers teams Core values:  Code quality - can't scale crappy code  Program execution  Alignment  Transparency House of Lean: "We need to figure out a way to deliver software so

Application Installations  Route Adds – requires heightened security access  Database Data Script Execution  Load Balancer Node Disablement  OS and Security Patching  Requesting access to technology

delivered requirements within the entire development period of performance.  During the program execution phase, a high-level program estimate undergoes refinement to create detailed release and sprint-level

to a plan and also facilitate change and organizational responsiveness. It is not a conflict in execution—it is a conflict of values. In the Agile world, senior IT leadership, and the CIO in particular