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The clock is ticking but cut them some Slack! Hipchat and Stride set to retire.
What was once a competition fueled by cake and cookies between two leading competitors for team collaboration tools, Atlassian announces…
Classic Scrum versus SAFe Scrum
After studying the Scrum Guide on multiple occasions over the past few weeks in preparation for a PSM1 Scrum Master…
Lean and Agile Principles for Transformation at Scale
Agile - Roots and Current State When the concept of Agile delivery was originally designed, it primarily focused on improving…
First Netflix or Bust? “Product” made all the difference
I hesitated as my mouth hung open a bit. A senior leader in a development organization had just asked, “Why…
Understanding Product Vision and Project Scope
Raise your hand if you thought that the Product Vision and the Project Scope were the same thing? Don’t be…
Use Case 2.0 – The Perfect Solution to your Agile Requirements Problem?
You have just been approved to stand up a new Agile team to enhance speed of delivery, improve transparency, and…
Mixing Agile and other Life Cycles in Large Scale Complex Environments
Building large-scale software and cyber-physical systems are one of the most complex and challenging endeavors in the industry today. Lean…
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with Splunk
Security and data privacy have been always important, but given the significant breaches that have taken place over the last…
ITSM Series: How Business can Reap Benefits from ITSM
IT Service Management (ITSM) transformation is no longer a “nice to have” but a “necessity” for growth and business performance…
Extreme Programming vs. Scrum
At the beginning of my career I became an OS/2 developer. Windows won the head-to-head competition for the PC operating…
5 Planning Poker Tips and Tricks That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Planning Poker, usually considered the standard tool for conducting estimation for Agile projects, is a tool that is often misunderstood…
Advanced Git Commands: Rewriting History
When developers use Git, they often use a combination of a graphical user interface and the command line. A GUI…