"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 ...

The key difference between story points and hours of effort is that story points are designed to compare the relative effort between tasks, while hours of effort calculations aim to predict the exact ...

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 ...

Most software engineering estimates are garbage. That’s not because companies are using the wrong methods or tools. Work-breakdown structure or analogy-based? Mechanical or judgmental combination?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about 21st century leadership, Agile, innovation & narrative. In the 1990s, the software department was often the worst ...

In modern-day working environments, Agile is becoming an increasingly popular project management methodology used to organize projects. Although it originated in the software development industry, ...