As Agile continues to “eat the world”, with the five largest firms on the planet steadily increasing their market capitalizations, including three with trillion-dollar market capitalizations, it’s not ...

This represents a waterfall type of approach to project planning, where one phase flows into the other. It works well for certain industries such as construction and manufacturing, but it is less ...

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The Agile Manifesto, which lays out 12 principles for agile software development, was written in 2001, a time when many people were still using dial-up internet. While these principles still influence ...

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Not everyone agrees with the suggestion that the firms with trillion-dollar market capitalizations—Amazon, Apple, Microsoft—have been built on Agile principles. Acting in accordance with the Agile ...

Much of agile’s success is due to the fact that it “sells” so well by promising solutions to perennial IT concerns: projects that run over budget and time, lack of team effectiveness, lack of true ...

There’s a lot of work IT teams take on when committing to agile and devops practices. Agile teams are likely to mature and scale their practice by defining the scrum master roles, adding estimating ...

The ever-increasing pace of technological advancements, rising costs, and new entrants into the health care marketplace are part of the challenge health care incumbents face today. With no alternative ...