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"When will it be done?" seems a simple question, but as anyone who works in modern product delivery knows, this can be hard to answer. Complex software platforms and cloud services are a fundamentally ...

Imagine you're cooking a new recipe. You have the ingredients, the instructions and the tools. Yet, as you cook, you run into problems: some ingredients need more prep time, the oven heats unevenly ...

Many agile and scrum teams start with basic practices to enable self-organizing teams to better deliver on business priorities. Practices include committing to what teams can get done in a sprint, ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Measuring business value is a challenge regardless of the methodology you use. Our Agile Architect explains how agile principles and practices can be used to ask the right questions. In my last column ...

In a recent client conversation, the topic of estimating backlog items in hours came up. It seems that I stepped on a hornet’s nest when I suggested that the client adopt a relative estimating ...