Project Management 28 Nov 2023 · 4 min read Use Iterative Prototyping To Fight Scope Creep The new project has you bursting with eager excitement. Finally, a chance to flex your creative muscles and design iteratively. No more rigid processes limiting the engineering skills you pursue. Read more
Project Management 1 Nov 2023 · 4 min read Have Your Cake and Eat It Too with Scrumban Finding the right balance between structure and flexibility is vital for agile software teams. Scrumban comes in to blend the best of both worlds — keeping Scrum’s focus and adding Read more
Project Management 30 Oct 2023 · 4 min read Dear Scrum, It’s Not Me, It’s You I sighed as I stared blankly at my laptop screen. Another sprint planning meeting was about to start, which meant another two weeks of frustration lay ahead. I had such Read more
Project Management 19 Oct 2023 · 4 min read Velocity Obsession: The Flawed Metric of Agile Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a manager obsessed with your team’s velocity. Yeah, that’s what I thought. Velocity is the go-to metric for tracking agile Read more
Project Management 15 Oct 2023 · 4 min read Stop Scope Creep With Prioritization Software projects are rife with uncertainty. Even seasoned developers struggle to provide accurate estimates. But one thing is sure — to ensure your project succeeds, you must prioritize the features your Read more
Project Management 26 Sep 2023 · 4 min read Why Your Roadmap is Worthless Without Rigor As CTO, I’m constantly seeking ways to improve how we build and deliver software. After a few painful release rollouts riddled with delays, defects, and cost overruns, someone suggested Read more
Project Management 20 Sep 2023 · 5 min read The Quest for the Holy Grail of Project Management Systems It could be me, but none of the off-the-shelf project management tools work for us. They’re either overly complicated like Jira or too simplistic and lack the functionality and Read more
Project Management 5 Sep 2023 · 4 min read The Context Switching Catastrophe: How to Save Your Engineering Team from Burnout It was the perfect storm. One of our lead engineers, Alex, had finally settled into coding a complex new feature that customers had eagerly awaited for months. Thirty minutes into Read more
Estimation 29 Aug 2023 · 4 min read Why Software Time Estimates Are A Pipe Dream Today, I want to discuss a sensitive topic — time estimates for software projects. This issue significantly impacts engineers of all kinds who are constantly asked to provide estimates, as well Read more
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