Natty Gur— Vice President and CIO of The Friedkin Companies, as well as an accomplished photographer, and blogger —managed his department through concurrent “insourcing” of its IT services and migration to the cloud. Faced with fundamental, dramatic market changes, the automotive conglomerate sought to increase organizational agility by self-managing their own cloud-based infrastructure.
Agile development enabled his team to turn crisply, reliably, and repeatably on every sick curve and nasty slider the lengthy transition dealt them.
Along the way Natty formed an insight. If Agile principles make software development teams responsive to change, couldn’t they be expected to improve agility when applied to open-ended business functions as well?
XOIT (eXpOnential IT) is his name for the system he designed and is in the process of implementing to empower his department with Agile development principles. He documents the ongoing implementation on his blog.
A Cautionary Tale
He discusses a particularly frustrating interaction with a large camera manufacturer. Bound to process at the critical moment, their customer service department lost a loyal customer. The Agile Manifesto declares the value of individuals and interactions over processes and tools. Natty’s experience is an instance in which an organization empowered by Agile principles could have preserved a customer relationship.
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