Category: Agile

“Sorry we don’t have enough resources, we only have four pairs” – As an engineering leader no other statement has made me cringe more.  After all four pairs is a healthy sized team of eight developers.  Throughout my career I have run across CTOs, VPs, directors, development managers, teams, and individual developers who swear by …

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Anyone who has worked in an agile organization has found that certain projects don’t quiet fit the agile mold.   Nowhere is this more apparent than with research oriented projects.   After all if there is complete uncertainty in the scope and outcome of a project, as would be the case in a research project, how do …

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