Setting Objectives for Agile Projects

Most Agile methodologies omit a crucial aspect of successful software development — Defining measurable business objectives for the initiative. When agile projects are aligned with well-defined objectives they become a powerful business tool, without such…

Rough Design up Front

Rough Design Up Front, is often the best way to start a project.

Digital Transformation and Continuous Change

Digital transformation increases business agility but the price is continuous…

When Rough Design is Good enough

Rough Design Up Front can help create project momentum, shorten the overall development time, reduce…

Risk Management for High-Stakes Projects

A simplified form of risk management based on quantification and pooling of risk can be applied to software development projects. For most projects this level of risk management and tracking is unnecessary, some would even say it is an agile anti-pattern, but…

The Limits of Evolutionary Design

Evolution is wasteful — many failures are needed to explore a problem space. After multiple rounds…

Resource Allocation Strategies for Digital Transformation