As a product or project manager, or Agile leader, you may face many tough decisions regularly. You have to balance the needs of your customers, your stakeholders, and your team. You have to consider the value, the effort, and the risk of each option. …

Epics and milestones are two powerful tools that can help you plan, organize, and track your work in agile projects. Agile planning is a key factor for the success of any project. It helps you define and deliver value to your customers, adapt to changing requirements, and collaborate effectively with your team and stakeholders. But how do you plan your agile projects in a way that is clear, realistic, and…

From cargo cult, feature creep and technical debt— tips on how to combat them. Are you looking for some tips on how to deal with agile anti-patterns and dysfunctions? Do you want to learn how to avoid or overcome common pitfalls that may affect your agile performance and outcomes? If so, you are in the right place! In this blog post, I will share…

Accumulation of tech debt, can be detrimental, here’s how to stay on top of it Technical debt is the accumulated cost of code quality issues, design flaws, or outdated technologies that affect the performance, security, or maintainability of a software product. Technical debt can slow down development, increase bugs, and reduce customer satisfaction. How to reduce technical debt Identify and prioritize your technical debt.

Hey, delivery managers! Do you love agile? Do you wish you could make your program managers see the light and join the agile revolution? In this blog, I will share with you some tips and tricks on how to convince your program managers to use agile for their programs, without…

How to prioritize and manage your initiatives and epics across a program Do you want to learn how to prioritize and manage your initiatives and epics across a program based on a defined constraint limit? Do you want to deliver the most value to your customers or users within the given budget, resources, or time? …

How to scale them across multiple teams, projects and departments One of the biggest challenges that organizations face when they adopt agile methods is how to scale them across multiple teams, projects and departments. Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban are designed to work well for small, self-organizing teams that deliver value in short iterations. …

Tips and Strategies for Agile Leaders Scaling delivery from an agile framework is a challenge for many leaders. Being a servant leader of a team, or even a handful of squads, requires a different skill set than leading an agile organization. How can agile leaders take the next step and rise above the waterline? And no…

Tips from an Agile workflow manager — If you are working on an Agile project, you know that epics are large user stories that can span multiple iterations or sprints. Epics are often used to capture high-level features or goals that require a lot of work and collaboration from different teams or roles. …