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Is Measuring Velocity in Scrum Good or Bad for Your Team?
Throughout the past few years, the Velocity metric seems to have become a polarizing element among Agile teams due to…
ITSM and DevOps: Friends or Foes?
Speaking to purists on both sides, you could easily come away believing that IT service management (ITSM) and DevOps are…
What to Expect When You Migrate Off of Atlassian Server
As February 15, 2024, draws nearer, it's essential to take action and begin the process of migrating from Atlassian Server…
Pillars of Engineering Management: How Foundational Engineering Practices Drive Business Success
The engineering industry is constantly evolving. Staying ahead of the curve requires a deep understanding of emerging trends and technologies.…
How to Manage Unplanned Work in SAFe?
At the time of this writing, which is early-2023, Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe) remains the most popular framework in use…
Atlassian Server End-of-Life — So What?
Most of the organizations that use Atlassian solutions, (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Jira Align, and more) have come to rely on…
Six Practices for De-Commodifying the Scrum Master and Unleashing Team Greatness
It is painful to watch how some enterprises treat the Scrum Master role like a commodity: Scrum Masters are all…
The Portfolio Kanban System & Lean Portfolio Management
Since their initial creation decades ago, both Agile and Lean management principles have fueled the continuous improvement of organizations across…
POETIC Leadership Enables Lean-Agile Leadership, Part Three: Intelligent and Curious
This is the third in a three-part series of articles covering the POETIC Leadership approach to Lean-Agile leadership, authored by…
Finally, Safe 6.0 Puts Continuous Learning Culture Where It Belongs
There is a real buzz in the SAFe community with the new changes in SAFe 6.0… Strengthening the foundation for…
Data Integration Techniques—Which Should You Use?
Today’s business is built around data and the algorithms that process it to extract the maximum value. The average company…
How to Apply Agile to Non-Software Work
The concept of “Agile” has been tied to software development mainly because of the 2001 publication, The Manifesto for Agile…