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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 ...

"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 ...

Software effort estimation is a critical component in the planning and management of agile software projects. In the fluid environment of agile development, teams must rapidly iterate and adapt, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...