Agile Is Not Enough

Truly successful software delivery requires far more.

What Agile Doesn’t Address

Dear Software Industry,

Daily Scrum— or How to Manage the Daily Incremental Update Timebox

Ahh, the Daily Scrum. Essential daily meeting or utter waste of time?

Let’s explore ways of optimizing this Scrum essential so that it’s useful and minimally impactful, shall we?

Agile: What Exactly is a Mindset?

There are a lot of unfortunate posts both here on Medium as well as other forms and platforms which talk about the Agile Methodology. I’ll admit to cringing when I read these. Not quite as much as I cringe when people use Story and Task interchangeably, but that’s…

Reclaiming BDD

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For the love of all things, let’s set something straight. Scaled Agile Framework doesn’t own the…

Done vs. Done-Done (dun dun dun!)

Ahh, the ellusive Definition of Done.

I read an article today — yet another variation of “Scrum Isn’t Dead, But…” Alas, this one, like so many others, glossed over a fundamental problem area that plagues Scrum and so many other pipelines.

The Genesis of Real-World Sprint Estimating

In the beginning, Scrum defined the Sprint. And the sprint swirled and formed itself…

Estimation and Accountability

Over in Redditland, and here in Medium, for that matter, I’ve seen a bunch of articles to the effect of “why bother estimating software?” My mind boggles at this. The reasons ought to be obvious, but clearly, they’re not — hence me sitting down and writing this article.