What do you think of when I say “bug free software?”

Most of us think about large testing efforts, TDD, find and fix early, “acceptable defect rate,” extremely expensive cleanroom development, long nights getting the ...

You have great teams. They have a great internal culture and their own development quirks that a stranger will never understand.
At first this is great, because you are moving fast. Later on, though, you find that you h...

Moving to the cloud requires us to change the way we approach things. In the early days of Agile, the concept of delivering a potentially shippable product every 2-4 weeks was hard to comprehend. In cloud reality, we nee...

Let's take a look at best-of-breed software product development companies. Are there common principles they use to help them reach stellar results? Are they Agile? How different are they really from the rest of us? We'll...

Lessons learned during our HPE Software journey from waterfall to agile and DevOps across a large scale global organization, and what we learned from supporting our largest enterprise customers in their own journey.  Wil...

When you focus on a journey from up-close you look at your own technical and cultural history and how you changed it for the benefit of the customer. This was our starting point: too many integration issues, 13 SWP days ...

Is it better to collaborate with our customer than to contract with them? Indeed, but without a contract we’ll never be given the opportunity to collaborate. So what to do?

The problem lies less with the need to contr...

From Plan to Planning - Agile Planning and Estimation

The 4th principle in the Agile manifest: “Responding to Change over following the plan” is probably one of the reasons for the common myths about Agile - “Agile ha...

The way we manage knowledge work today differs from the way we managed knowledge work in the past. There has been a lot of progress, but have we gotten to a place where we could claim, that we know how to actually do it?...

When it comes to shaping agile teams many organisations use a leader decides model. The design of the teams is often a very delicate balancing act. Skills, experience, subject matter expertise and personalities all need ...

During a very intense year of robust Agile implementation, managers found themselves in turmoil. With all of this team empowerment, managers were asking themselves – what’s my role? What tools do I have to actually manag...

Why is continuous learning important? What fosters a learning culture? What specific things can I do in my organization to encourage continuously learning at the personal and group levels?

These questions and more wil...

This is the story of Actimize transformation and adoption of SAFe Agile methodology  -  learn how NICE Actimize made the bold decision to implement SAFe throughout the entire product house (400+ people), with full manage...

It is long since Agile has become a commonality. everyone is working in Scrum, Kanban or even Scrumban!

However, in our competitive and super-fast moving world this is not enough. We cannot assume that we know what ou...

Navigating Complexity means navigating uncertainty. Dealing with uncertainty requires emotional maturity and clarity of thought. 

Unfortunately politics and power games do more to obscure reality than they do to uncov...