Are you still held back by belief in the possibility of an optimal process?

If you deliver value incrementally, you get scope cutting for free. With or without a deadline.

Agile coach and consultant Jac Hughes joins me to talk about his experience with Scrum, when it does and does not make sense, and how to get started with it, if you've made that decision.

Velocity usually includes unplanned work, which limits its usefulness for capacity planning and forecasting.

Can incremental software development work under a hard deadline?

Most processes are dominated by a single bottleneck. Focus your improvement efforts on that bottleneck for best results.

Next time you're facing an unclear feature or epic, ask: Why this? Why now? Why me?

Two fundamental questions I'd ask any Agile Coach job candidates, if I were hiring.

Many projects do operate in a non-agile way. What happens to them? Most fail.

Unfinished code is like old parts in a warehouse.

If we don't know when a software project will be done, how do we know if it's worth the investment?