One of agile development’s core principles is to deliver working software at the end of every sprint. Teams accomplish this by defining robust user story acceptance criteria, committing to the sprint ...

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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 ...

One challenge agile leaders and teams face is how to define and follow data and architectural patterns and standards in agile development. There’s a belief that it’s hard to drive data and technical ...

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Over the course of the last decades, there was a steady rise of flexible software development practices around the world. The reason seems simple enough: an increased diversity in products, processes ...

Want to be agile? Then run your technology operations like a startup or an internet company. That's the gist of a recent podcast featuring Santiago Comella-Dorda and Gerard Speksnijder, both with ...

"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 ...

...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 ...

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Agile development, early warning, Darwin, and failure Some IT projects are destined to fail due to haphazard planning, poor execution, or unexpected changes in the business or technical environment.