Today was my one year anniversary in my new job as Senior Director running software engineering at Corbis. It's been an interesting year. While we put out 34 releases of new software across a range of our IT systems and external facing systems like corbis.com with barely a handful of defects, the really interesting part of the job has been watching the cultural change and the growing maturity of whole IT organization. It's amazing how a values driven organization can mature towards a self-governing culture enabled by transparency and high levels of trust and the results are greater productivity and exceptional quality.

After a year, I'm having more fun than ever. It's fascinating working with a team as we gradually change from a traditional waterfall approach to IT projects and introduce a more collaborative form of working. There is a lot more work to be done and I'm looking forward to another year pushing the boundaries with enterprise agile and lean methods. Meanwhile, our kanban ideas are really catching on with over 130 members in the Yahoo! group and close to 300 messages already this month. We're seeing some bigger companies like Yahoo! looking in to it and sharing their progress with other group members. It's so energizing to see our ideas catching on both across our own company and externally. Technorati tag: Agile, David+Andeerson, Lean