"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 ...

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The Agile Manifesto values “individuals and interactions over processes and tools.” One of the signers’ key principles is, “The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from ...

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, ...

Agile development focuses on delivering new features or products that could be demonstrated or even go to market at the end of each one-week to one-month development period, called sprints. Agile ...

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 ...

...Or is conventional planning failing business? There's no doubt about it: Agile works. There are many stories of companies that have benefitted from going agile. However, agile is failing to meet ...