"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 ...

Imagine you're cooking a new recipe. You have the ingredients, the instructions and the tools. Yet, as you cook, you run into problems: some ingredients need more prep time, the oven heats unevenly ...

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, ...

Software effort estimation is a critical component in the planning and management of agile software projects. In the fluid environment of agile development, teams must rapidly iterate and adapt, ...

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 ...

Measuring business value is a challenge regardless of the methodology you use. Our Agile Architect explains how agile principles and practices can be used to ask the right questions. In my last column ...