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Many of today’s best software companies tout agile development as a way to release software early and often, as longer-term planning can be more heavily impacted by project unknowns. Yet why […]

In the Guardian’s Platforms team, agile is implemented as a hybrid of Scrum and Kanban. There are fortnightly sprints, daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives and a backlog. We use Τrello […]

  A simple idea: update your operating model to be able to build small, self-contained teams that create change quickly and efficiently. Agility is about adjusting a company’s operating model […]

The Burning Question Last year, I was facilitating a workshop on Agile and began the conversation, as usual, with introductions. I asked each attendee what was the most important, burning […]

A £75m “Agile” BBC IT project has evaded scrutiny because managers could make up the benefits as they went along, according to the spending watchdog the National Audit Office. Any […]

Several months ago I wrote an article lamenting the fetishization of Agile in place of the practice of actually being agile (aka process minimalism focused on production). It got a […]

Awhile back, I got into a rather heated discussion with someone who was a firm believer in “textbook Scrum” and insisted that because the Product Owner is part of the Scrum […]

What is Agile transformation? The process of transitioning to Agile, or Agile transformation as it is commonly referred to as, includes transforming an organisation still following the work processes prevalent […]

One area most agile methods are completely silent on is project chartering. Below is a lightweight you can use to fill this gap and get your project headed in the […]

Since the Agile manifesto was published in February 2001, software development has evolved into a collaborative process of rapid and constant change. Nearly fifteen years on,  Agile has been pretty […]